Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.

The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.

Don't get me wrong, The Beatles are one of our all-time favourite bands, but there's a lot more we were influenced by.

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

I'm more in the Stones camp than the Beatles camp.

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

Were the Rolling Stones good looking? Well, Jagger was, but the rest of the dudes? Maybe not so much.

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

The only criterion we used in doing cover material was we wanted to do songs that we wished bands would play when we went out. We were doing Yardbirds and Rolling Stones cover songs-which is not any big deal, but where we were from, all we were getting were Top 40 bands.

I was a massive Rolling Stones fan, and I wanted to play music like... they do... were doing.

Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.

I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.