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

• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Time
  • Country
  • Want

• 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 don't like piano solos.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Piano
  • Solos

• 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

• It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Edge

• As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

  

  Valerie June
  • High
  • Try
  • Guitar

• 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

• Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Guitar
  • Pickup
  • Elvis

• I do believe I have certain strengths as a female CEO, such as having another level of awareness through emotional intelligence.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Believe
  • Emotional
  • Certain

• Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

  

  Aristotle
  • Control
  • Desires
  • Passions

• I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Think
  • Future
  • Years

• To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U.S., France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Immigration
  • Surprised
  • Occupation

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

  

  Mick Ralphs
  • Guitar
  • Certain
  • Piano