Ritchie Blackmore

Ritchie Blackmore
Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmoreis an English guitarist and songwriter. He began his career as a session musician as a member of the instrumental band The Outlaws and as a backing musician of pop singers such as Glenda Collins, Heinz, Screaming Lord Sutch and Neil Christian...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth14 April 1945
I was always stuck in a musical no man's land.
change english-musician original
What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?
good totally work
I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.
death life
I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.
complain life looked periods school sums time window
They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.
english-musician given guitar hearing lost players sick tired
I had given up on 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.
player rays attention
Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
notes strict session
Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
discipline not-good-enough musician
I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
player guitar reputation
In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.
spontaneity spontaneous
Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.
sound cleanliness mess
When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.
play stage wells
If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.
play-hard rocks renaissance
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.