Ritchie Blackmore Quotes
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

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I'm not coming back to play.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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My hero is Roger Federer.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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My dad was exceptionally ambitious. But he had a lot thrown on him, exceeding his ambition. He wanted his band to be successful. But he didn't want to be the fucking voice of a generation.
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My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.
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The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
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Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.
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Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.