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 Read Quote
I’m not a country picker, really – I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound. Mick Ralphs Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
