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Ritchie Blackmore

"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."

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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."

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"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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"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."

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

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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."

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"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."

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"I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."

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