Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

I think everybody thinks they're an amazing singer, but I'm one of those guys who realizes where his limitations are, and it's definitely with singing and dancing.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

I'll never be the best guitar player.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

I would love to be able to program myself to pick up any instrument and to be able to play it very, very well, and to be able to read music and dance as well. I'm very uncoordinated, and I'd love to be able to bust a really great move.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I can conduct better than I count.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

If I could read it, I could play it.

I'm not a complete moron like most musicians whom I've met.

Kendrick Lamar is 10-times the rapper I am, but I just feel I'm the best at getting my own point across.

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

I've never really considered myself a musician.

I don't think that I have any musical talent.

You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care and I'll continue not to bother to brush my hair.' Or you can be a weak-willed person like me and think 'oh I'd better get my act together. And maybe my mother was right and I do need to put my hair back and tidy myself up a bit.' So I did tidy myself up a bit. But I do often resent the amount of time that it takes to pull yourself together to go on TV, I really do. If I sound bitter, then that accurately reflects how I feel about the subject.