"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let……" — Ritchie Blackmore
"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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47 Quotes by Ritchie Blackmore
Ritchie Blackmore has 47 quotes on this site.
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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.…
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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…
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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,…
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Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and…
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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…
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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…
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More Chords Quotes
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one of 284 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
— Annie Besant
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
— David Bowie
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always…
— David Bowie
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The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to…
— Kobe Bryant
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All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
— David Byrne
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears.…
— Albert Camus
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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
— Kate Chopin
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
— Leonard Cohen
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There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was…
— Tori Amos
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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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