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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I don't know if I want to walk down the street and have everyone staring. I think that would be awful. I'm a pretty shy person, really.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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I have to keep reminding my students, asking them, "What is your experience of listening to this? Don't tell me about the notes you see on the page, tell me about what you hear.
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Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.
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Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
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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.
