Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

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• But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Learn

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Effort
  • Find
  • Too Much

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Character
  • Present
  • Humanity

• When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
  • Night
  • Fire

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Long
  • Opinion

• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Greed
  • Idiot
  • Newspaper

• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Writer

• I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Together
  • Kind

• I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • America
  • Hope

• The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Risks

• When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Mother

• What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Cure
  • Physician
  • Origin

• My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Design
  • Dress
  • Uniform

• What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Love
  • Violence
  • Opera

• I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hockey

• Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Disease

• A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Consciousness
  • Feeble Mind

• Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Up
  • Time
  • Jazz

• To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Possible
  • Jazz

• I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Jazz
  • Guitarist