Ronnie Montrose Quotes

#1. I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

Ronnie Montrose

#2. Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.

Ronnie Montrose

#3. The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

Ronnie Montrose

#5. It's hard to dance with the Devil on your back, So shake him off.

Florence Welch

#6. I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

Ronnie Montrose

#7. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

Ronnie Montrose

#8. My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

Claude Chabrol

#9. It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

Ronnie Montrose

#10. When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.

Ronnie Montrose

#11. Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.

Ronnie Montrose

#12. My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.

Ronnie Montrose

#13. But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person.

Ronnie Montrose

#14. I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

Ronnie Montrose

#15. I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

Ronnie Montrose

#16. You know, you don't please everybody.

Ronnie Montrose

#17. I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

Ronnie Montrose

#18. Evangelism is not a monologue, but a dialogue.

Jim George

#19. I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

Ronnie Montrose

#20. In today's society, the forces against you are heavy against you. The whole goal is to get knowledge of yourself, but people are so far from themselves that they don't believe themselves.

RZA

#21. What good is a body if I can't have you?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#22. I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.

Ronnie Montrose

#23. We all have the need to feel special.

Janet Jackson

#24. I don't recall getting a first guitar.

Ronnie Montrose

#25. I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I was seeing the light at the end of the recovery tunnel and was going to live pain-free, I realized again that it was a fun little instrument to play.

Ronnie Montrose

#26. I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.

Ronnie Montrose

#27. These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

Bill McKibben

#28. I've never known how to read music in my life.

Ronnie Montrose

#29. What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

Ronnie Montrose

#30. Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

George Herbert

#31. Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Jim Stovall

#32. My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with recorders and everything and I listened to a lot of jazz, which gave me a sensibility for melody.

Ronnie Montrose

#33. I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

Ronnie Montrose

#34. What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.

Leonard Ravenhill