35 Quotes by Mick Ralphs

I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

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.

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.

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.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.

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.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.