Mick Ralphs Quotes

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.

I believe in rock and roll and heavy music in general.

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

I like hard, aggressive music.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I'm done with industrial. Seriously, my iPod collection at home has no industrial music on it; it's strictly jazz, blues and country.

I'm not really into rap.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.