Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

• I like leaping around on stage as long as it’s done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.

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• I’m not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

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  Tags in Enough, Discipline, Lack

• I’m not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

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  Tags in Different, Liked, Trip

• If a ballet dancer falls over, it’s knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

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• If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

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  Tags in Play, Stage, Studio

• Playing a Fender is an art itself. They’re always going out of tune.

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  Tags in Playing, Tune

• Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

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  Tags in Control, Trying, Learning

• Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that’s what caught everybody’s attention. As a player, he didn’t do anything amazing.

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  Tags in Anything, Amazing, Attention

• The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

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  Tags in Miserable, Instrument

• Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He’s overrated.

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• Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He’s very underrated.

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• Simplicity is the key.

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• Session work makes you more strict. You can’t hit notes all over the place. You’ve got to make each one really count.

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• When I was 20, I didn’t give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

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  Tags in Give, Play, Wanted

• What’s the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

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  Tags in Change, Point

• Those record companies don’t know what’s happening at all.

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  Tags in Happening, Record, Companies

• When you’re around someone good, your own standards are raised.

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• When you’re recording, if you’re not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

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  Tags in Playing, Clean, Sounds

• The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal.

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• When something is not good, it’s bad. Period.

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  Tags in Bad, Period

Ritchie Blackmore (41)

Birth:	15th April, 1945
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist

About

Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is a British guitarist and songwriter, known as one of the first guitarists to fuse classical music elements with blues rock.

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Births

• 1946 - Polly Toynbee
• 1976 - Aaron Stanford
• 1915 - William Howell Masters
• 1930 - Meg Greenfield
• 1906 - Oscar Levant

Deaths

• 1985 - Potter Stewart
• 1938 - Zona Gale
• 1994 - Marjorie Joyner
• 2003 - Alan Bates