Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

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• I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

  

  Becky G
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  • Song
  • New

• The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Giving
  • Woman

• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Song

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

• 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Done
  • Character

• I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Friends
  • Song

• Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Giving
  • Just
  • Credit

• One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Character
  • Song

• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• 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

• You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Love
  • Song

• Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Song
  • Bed
  • Rocks

• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Noise
  • Symphony

• How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Giving

• People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • People
  • Government
  • Policies

• An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Would
  • Explosion
  • Wipe

• It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

  

  Enoch Powell

• But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Music
  • Art
  • Simple

• I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?

  

  Debbie Allen
  • Good
  • Why
  • Insurance

• When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Noise