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I feel like I own the stage.
— 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
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
— 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
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
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
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
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
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
— 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
I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
— Ritchie Blackmore
Either love me not at all, or as I love you, for ever.
— R.D. 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
'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
— R.D. 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 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
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
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
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 can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.
— 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