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Ritchie Blackmore

"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."

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"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."

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Donna Grant

"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

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Donna Grant

"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."

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Donna Grant

"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."

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Donna Grant

"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."

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Donna Grant

"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."

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Donna Grant

"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."

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Donna Grant

"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."

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Donna Grant

"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."

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Donna Grant

"I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano."

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Donna Grant

"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."

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Ritchie Blackmore
"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."

Play

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Ritchie Blackmore
"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."

Life

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Ritchie Blackmore
"Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune."

Art

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Ritchie Blackmore
"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."

Guitar

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Ritchie Blackmore
"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."

Class

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Ritchie Blackmore
"When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag."

Day

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Ritchie Blackmore
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."

Ballet

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Ritchie Blackmore
"I criticize my own work pretty harshly."

Work

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Ritchie Blackmore
"Simplicity is the key."

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Ritchie Blackmore
"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."

Melancholy

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