"I'm not good enough, technically, to be a……" — Ritchie Blackmore

"I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline."

— Ritchie Blackmore

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47 Quotes by Ritchie Blackmore

Ritchie Blackmore has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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.…
I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I…
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,…
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and…
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling…
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…

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More Classic Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a… — Paul Auster
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out… — Russell Baker
I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a… — Drew Barrymore
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my… — Mario Batali
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach… — Mitch Albom
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money.… — Louisa May Alcott
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino

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