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Ritchie Blackmore has 50 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
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Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
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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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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…
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I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want…
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I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
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Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
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I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything…
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Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
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I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much…
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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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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…
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Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40.…
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Wig Out At Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can and Gas;…
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Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better…
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Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music,…
— Bob Mould
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Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
— Sting
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Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and…
— Alex Lifeson
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Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Morgan Freeman and Barbara Streisand will be recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors this December...as the worst version…
— Seth Meyers
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