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I don't see myself as such an important guitarist. — Ritchie Blackmore

I feel like I own the stage. — Ritchie Blackmore

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it. — Ritchie Blackmore

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 was brilliant. — Ritchie Blackmore

The sun was directly overhead, but blotted out by low storm clouds as depressing as suicide. — Keith C. Blackmore

Jimi ... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he? — Ritchie Blackmore

I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular. — Ritchie Blackmore

Because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? — R.D. Blackmore

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated. — Ritchie Blackmore

I was always stuck in a musical no man's land. — Ritchie Blackmore

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes. — Susan Blackmore

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 volume up a bit louder. — Ritchie Blackmore

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk. — Ritchie Blackmore

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all. — Ritchie Blackmore

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible. — Ritchie Blackmore

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count. — Ritchie Blackmore

Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth ... — R.D. Blackmore

He drove a kilometer before he pulled over with a curse. — Keith C. Blackmore

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together. — R.D. Blackmore

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal. — Ritchie Blackmore

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes. — Susan Blackmore

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well. — Susan Blackmore

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician. — Ritchie Blackmore

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. — Ritchie Blackmore

I can never remember what I do even in the studio. — Ritchie Blackmore

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it. — Ritchie Blackmore

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. — Susan Blackmore

Either love me not at all, or as I love you, for ever. — R.D. Blackmore

It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it. — R.D. Blackmore

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 your sustain. — Ritchie Blackmore

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it? — Ritchie Blackmore

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess. — Ritchie Blackmore

night. It was too dangerous. He drove in silence, struggling to keep his attention on the black — Keith C. Blackmore

'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.' — R.D. Blackmore

We are now becoming, by Blackmore's estimation, teme machines - servants to the evolution of our own technologies. — Michael Harris

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined. — Ritchie Blackmore

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings. — Ritchie Blackmore

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 than playing the guitar. — Ritchie Blackmore

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. — Ritchie Blackmore

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer. — Kiefer Sutherland

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness. — Ritchie Blackmore

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage. — Ritchie Blackmore

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies. — Susan Blackmore

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players. — Ritchie Blackmore

Now let us bandy words no more ... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken. — R.D. Blackmore

When something is not good, it's bad. Period. — Ritchie Blackmore

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes. — Susan Blackmore

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it. — Susan Blackmore

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only. — Ritchie Blackmore

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune. — Ritchie Blackmore

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits. — Ritchie Blackmore

I replaced Walsh, I replaced Blackmore, now I just gotta be me. — Tommy Bolin

Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning ... — R.D. Blackmore

Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums. — Ritchie Blackmore

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway. — Ritchie Blackmore

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing. — Ritchie Blackmore

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

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing. — Ritchie Blackmore

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised. — Ritchie Blackmore

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 listen to. — Ritchie Blackmore

When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag. — Ritchie Blackmore

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated. — Ritchie Blackmore

Too bad a person couldn't pick whom they shared the apocalypse with. — Keith C. Blackmore

Poof," Ross said. "I'm still here." "You smell something?" Kirk asked. "Smell what? My fuckin' nostrils froze up long ago. — Keith C. Blackmore

I criticize my own work pretty harshly. — Ritchie Blackmore

Simplicity is the key. — Ritchie Blackmore

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. — Ritchie Blackmore

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death. — Ritchie Blackmore

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed. — Susan Blackmore

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 to quietly watch a band. — Ritchie Blackmore

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes. — Ritchie Blackmore

brought them along nevertheless, remembering the old line, it was better to have and not need, than need and not have. Gus shook his head once, — Keith C. Blackmore