Mick Ralphs (Michael Geoffrey Ralphs) Quotes

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

Mick Ralphs

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• Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Guitar

• Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Certain
  • Vampire
  • Almost

• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Father
  • Piano

• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Find
  • Guitar
  • Numbers

• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Way
  • Player
  • Guitar

• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  

  Francine Pascal
  • People
  • Same
  • Piano

• My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Music
  • Dad

• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Song
  • Cool
  • Guitar

• I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

  

  B. B. King
  • Guitar
  • Emotions
  • Connect

• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Kid

• When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Learn
  • Guitar
  • Guilty

• My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Learn

• The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Learn
  • Start
  • Piano

• I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Remember
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

  

  B. B. King
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Guitar

• It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • May
  • Guitar

• Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • Believe
  • True
  • Reality

• When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Imagine
  • 20
  • 30

• There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Good
  • Numbers

• The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Heart
  • Proud
  • Grace

• The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.

  

  William Farr
  • Facts
  • Inference

• Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

  

  Mick Ralphs
  • Guitar
  • Certain
  • Piano