Mick Ralphs Quotes

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

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.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

I grew up with my parents always listening to rock music. My dad wanted me to play guitar, but I always had more of an ear for drums. He really wanted me to be a guitar player, like him.

Jack Bruce really showed me that you could go anywhere with a bass part, and as long as you stayed in time, as long as you held down the groove, the door was wide open.

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

We listen to so many different types of music, so it's easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.

I think I was made for live music. It's just great.

I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.

Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range. I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.

England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.

In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.

There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.