Ritenour Quotes

#1. Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

Saint Augustine

#2. In every time, in every culture, ordinary people have done extraordinary things.

M.R. Neer

#3. We have reached a very cynical era of comedy. The Muppets have proven, for 40 years, that you can get laughs without ever doing it at someone else's expense, and I think that that's a really important thing for kids to realize.

Jason Segel

#4. I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part.

Lee Ritenour

#5. I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

Susan Powter

#6. I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.

Lee Ritenour

#7. Her mind was a press of formless questions, mingling and crumbling limply away.

Samuel Beckett

#8. If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

Lee Ritenour

#9. Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

Lee Ritenour

#10. Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

Lee Ritenour

#11. My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.

Lee Ritenour

#12. In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.

Lee Ritenour

#13. I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

Haruki Murakami

#14. But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Amelia Barr

#15. I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

Lee Ritenour

#16. Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.

Lee Ritenour

#17. Human has no experience at all about
living in a peaceful world without war.

Toba Beta

#18. As Zie Zen's ashes flew on the wind, so did the time of those who had been born in freedom, caged in Silence, only to see it fall. Now . . . now it was the time of those who had been born in Silence, fought for freedom.

Nalini Singh

#19. I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.

Lee Ritenour

#20. I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Lee Ritenour

#21. It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.

Christopher Moore

#22. The one unforgivable sin is to be boring

Christopher Hitchens

#23. It's funny, because athletes want to be rockers and vice versa.

Matt Willig

#24. Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

Lee Ritenour