Top 49 Quotes by 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.

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.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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