Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. … - Ritchie Blackmore

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Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.

Ritchie Blackmore

Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.

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Jeff Beck is my idol. . sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one. . I loved Frank Zappa. . . I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar. . . he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

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But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

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One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.

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I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

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The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

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