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Type: Musician Quotes Category: English Musician Quotes Date of Birth: March 31, 1944 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Mick Ralphs Related Authors: John Lennon Barry Gibb Robert Wyatt Ritchie Blackmore Paul McCartney Mick Taylor Brian May Richard D. James |
Bad Company is not a priority in his life, and it's always been in my life. When it's not there, I haven't got a lot going for me.
Mick Ralphs Because I've always put them down, I generally tend to get music more than I do lyrics... when you get the two together, you've got a good song. Mick Ralphs But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know? Mick Ralphs Chuck Berry just put fours across the shuffle. If you try it, it really works. It's quite amazing, you'd think it wouldn't work but it's great. Mick Ralphs English people are so boring, they tend to stay where they were born and never go anywhere... 'cause England isn't that big anyway. Mick Ralphs Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive. Mick Ralphs I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco. Mick Ralphs I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way. Mick Ralphs I suppose people wouldn't think I played the keyboard, but I enjoy exploring the keyboard. I mean I only play by ear like I do guitar. Mick Ralphs I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action. Mick Ralphs I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual. Mick Ralphs I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually. Mick Ralphs It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear. Mick Ralphs Put me on stage and I'm happy. Mick Ralphs Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place. Mick Ralphs Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow. Mick Ralphs That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole. Mick Ralphs That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick. Mick Ralphs The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know? Mick Ralphs This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son. Mick Ralphs We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music. Mick Ralphs When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one. Mick Ralphs |
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