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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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
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I act with my gut instincts.
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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.
