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Put me on stage and I'm happy.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
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I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Action
Rock N Roll
Rocks
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I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Range
Range Rover
Years
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I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Angeles
Francisco
Los
San
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I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Brilliant
Manuals
Range
Manual
Rover
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But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Instruments
Keyboards
Knows
Complete
Instrument
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Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Certain
Guitar
Piano
Expansive
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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 / Guitarist
Home
Kind
Peg
Squares
Home Me I Can
Round
Hole
Square
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Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
People
Santa
Santa Fe
Unique
Great People Place
Great Place
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This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Chuck
Son
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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 / Guitarist
Internet
Wasted Time
Widows
Wife
World
Widow
Time Wife World
Wasted
Opened
Says
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I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Best People Never
Plan
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I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Mellow
Qualified
Blues
Downs
Ups
Ups And Downs
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One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.
Mick Ralphs / Guitarist
Chuck
Rhythm
Always Way Big
Berry
Inspirations
Way Always Big
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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 / Guitarist
People
Song
Stuff
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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 / Guitarist
Guitar
Scope
Writing
Years
Suppose
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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 / Guitarist
Funny
House
Next
Said
Scary
Talking
Walking
Whistling
Myself Me Day
Funny Myself Me
Around
Doing
Day
Even
Imitates
Parrot
Realize
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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 / Guitarist
Arrangements
Fanatics
Music Simple People
Blues
Sang
Orchestral
Simple Way
Tart
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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 / Guitarist
Accepted
London
Musician
Starving
Basement
Pleased
Tune
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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 / Guitarist
Churning
Forty
Significance
Song
Thirty
Twenties
Writing
Good Song
Stick
Twenty
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