Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

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• When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
• Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
• The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
• I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get…
• I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able…
• I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
• Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
• I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him…
• Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
• I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
• Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
• I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection…
• I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.
• Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
• The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
• But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the…
• Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.
• I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
• I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.
• I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to…

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