Ronnie Montrose Quotes

• Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Try

• This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn’t gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Place

• There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind, Government

• That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political

• Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn’t get affected by trade or other considerations.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Trade

• Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Impact

• I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Experience, Justice, Respect

• I don’t believe we’re seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Confidence

• A lot of the American press at the time was saying ‘just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission’s true colors.’ Well, that deal never happened either.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Truth

• You know, you don’t please everybody.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everybody, Please

• It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I’d really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I’d really contributed to the music.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Feeling

• I’m pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic – oriented guitar record that I’ve already written most of the material for.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guitar, Plan

• I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful, Pretty

• I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Fire

• I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guitar, Friends

• I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Few, Actually

• I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretty, Opinion

• I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy’s Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing

• I don’t recall getting a first guitar.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guitar, Recall

Ronnie Montrose (25)

Birth:	29th November, 1947
Death:	3rd March, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Producer, Lyricist

About

Ronald Douglas "Ronnie" Montrose was an American rock guitarist who led a number of his own bands as well as performed and did session work with a variety of musicians, including Sammy Hagar, Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison, The Beau Brummels, Boz Scaggs, Beaver & Krause, Gary Wright, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, Dan Hartman, Marc Bonilla, Edgar Winter, and Johnny Winter.

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