Mick Ralphs Quotes

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