Top 98 Blackmore's Quotes
#1. We are now becoming, by Blackmore's estimation, teme machines - servants to the evolution of our own technologies.
Michael Harris
#2. Now let us bandy words no more ... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
R.D. Blackmore
#3. If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.
Ritchie Blackmore
#4. 'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet for our own benefit - think about temes spreading for themselves because they must.
Susan Blackmore
#5. If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore
#6. Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
Ritchie Blackmore
#7. I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.
Ritchie Blackmore
#8. A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that.
Ritchie Blackmore
#9. I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.
Ritchie Blackmore
#10. If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.
Susan Blackmore
#11. Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing safe. If you hesitate you are restraining your creativity. Some will appreciate your creative work and others will not. Just be free in expressing the creative you!
Alison Blackmore
#12. I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
Ritchie Blackmore
#13. Jimi ... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?
Ritchie Blackmore
#15. Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.
Ritchie Blackmore
#16. I replaced Walsh, I replaced Blackmore, now I just gotta be me.
Tommy Bolin
#17. Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example.
Susan Blackmore
#18. 'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
R.D. Blackmore
#19. Too bad a person couldn't pick whom they shared the apocalypse with.
Keith C. Blackmore
#20. Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful ...
Ritchie Blackmore
#22. I would just like to say that Ritchie Blackmore did a bunch of great stuff guitar - wise. I'm happy to play the solo from 'Highway Star'. I always thought it was one of the most exciting guitar solos I'd ever played ...
Steve Morse
#23. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.
Susan Blackmore
#25. All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.
Susan Blackmore
#26. Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.
Susan Blackmore
#27. I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.
Ritchie Blackmore
#28. I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.
Ritchie Blackmore
#29. I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.
Ritchie Blackmore
#30. But whatever lives or dies, business must be attended to; and the principal business of good Christians is, beyond all controversy, to fight with one another.
R.D. Blackmore
#31. For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.
Susan Blackmore
#32. When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
Ritchie Blackmore
#34. I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.
Ritchie Blackmore
#35. I wandered in the streets, what with the noise the people made, the number of the coaches, the running of the footmen, the swaggering of great courtiers, and the thrusting aside of everybody, many a time I longed to be back among the sheep again, for fear of losing my peacefulness of spirit.
R.D. Blackmore
#36. night. It was too dangerous. He drove in silence, struggling to keep his attention on the black
Keith C. Blackmore
#37. Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.
Susan Blackmore
#38. Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.
Susan Blackmore
#39. I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
Ritchie Blackmore
#40. Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning ...
R.D. Blackmore
#41. When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
Ritchie Blackmore
#42. In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.
Ritchie Blackmore
#43. I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.
Ritchie Blackmore
#45. When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
Ritchie Blackmore
#46. Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.
Susan Blackmore
#47. The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
Richard Blackmore
#48. Either love me not at all, or as I love you, for ever.
R.D. Blackmore
#49. Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past ... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.
Susan Blackmore
#51. Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?
Susan Blackmore
#52. Poof," Ross said. "I'm still here." "You smell something?" Kirk asked. "Smell what? My fuckin' nostrils froze up long ago.
Keith C. Blackmore
#53. It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.
R.D. Blackmore
#56. Because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?
R.D. Blackmore
#57. Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
Ritchie Blackmore
#58. The sun was directly overhead, but blotted out by low storm clouds as depressing as suicide.
Keith C. Blackmore
#59. 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.
Ritchie Blackmore
#60. When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.
Ritchie Blackmore
#61. May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.
R.D. Blackmore
#63. The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore
#64. pockets, feeling the extra shotgun shells, and then reached over his shoulder and felt the bat, ready to grab if needed. He had combat knives sheathed in both boots, but it was rare that he got to use those. He brought them
Keith C. Blackmore
#65. brought them along nevertheless, remembering the old line, it was better to have and not need, than need and not have. Gus shook his head once,
Keith C. Blackmore
#66. I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
Ritchie Blackmore
#68. brace covered his neck. Dark, fingerless gloves covered his hands to allow a better grip on his shotgun. An aluminum baseball bat was slung across his back, Samurai-style, in a crude scabbard next to a large backpack He
Keith C. Blackmore
#69. What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?
Ritchie Blackmore
#70. I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.
Susan Blackmore
#71. 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.
Ritchie Blackmore
#73. being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism
Jill Blackmore
#74. When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.
Susan Blackmore
#75. 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.
Ritchie Blackmore
#76. Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.
R.D. Blackmore
#77. I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.
Kiefer Sutherland
#78. Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
Ritchie Blackmore
#79. I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.
Ritchie Blackmore
#81. I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
Ritchie Blackmore
#82. If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.
Susan Blackmore
#83. Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
Ritchie Blackmore
#84. Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
Ritchie Blackmore
#85. One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.
Susan Blackmore
#86. But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
Ritchie Blackmore
#87. 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.
Ritchie Blackmore
#89. If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.
Susan Blackmore
#90. Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
Ritchie Blackmore
#91. The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.
Susan Blackmore
#92. Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth ...
R.D. Blackmore
#93. Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
Ritchie Blackmore
#94. You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
Richard Blackmore
#95. The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
Ritchie Blackmore
#96. Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.
Susan Blackmore
#97. I had given up 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.
Ritchie Blackmore
#98. Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.
Susan Blackmore
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