Ritchie Blackmore Quotes
Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
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A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial. about 1958, text on a bill for selling 'air'
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Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.
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Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care.
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I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
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A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
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And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.
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Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.
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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.
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Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.
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Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
