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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
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Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.
Ritchie Blackmore
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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.
Ritchie Blackmore
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Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
Ritchie Blackmore
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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 his car collection than playing the guitar.
Ritchie Blackmore
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Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
Ritchie Blackmore
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I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
Ritchie Blackmore
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore
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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
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Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
Ritchie Blackmore
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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
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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 anyway.
Ritchie Blackmore
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