Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

I'll never be the best guitar player.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

My goal is to just be able to play as many instruments as I possibly can.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

The only thing I was any good at was music.