When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.
Ritchie BlackmoreSession work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
Ritchie BlackmoreSometimes if I'm not playing well on stage, I'll purposely play even worse; I'll tear it apart, because I'm so disgusted with what I'm playing that I'll go the wrong route: instead of trying to make it better, I'll go the other way and really make myself sound bad. Which is a kind of a strange outlook I suppose, really.
Ritchie Blackmore