Top 49 Quotes by Ritchie Blackmore

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.