Creativity Quote by Ritchie Blackmore

Blackmore isn’t praising Jimi Hendrix’s chops so much as the total package: the way charisma becomes a form of musicianship. Calling Hendrix’s “attitude” brilliant reframes virtuosity as something you wear, not just something you play. It’s a guitarist recognizing that in rock, the instrument extends past the fretboard into posture, timing, risk, and the quiet confidence of taking up space onstage. “Even the way he walked” lands as the giveaway: Hendrix’s power operated at the level of silhouette, a kind of body language that told the crowd what the notes would confirm.

The subtext is competitive respect. Blackmore, himself a defining architect of hard rock guitar heroism, is admitting that Hendrix changed the rules of the job. Technique could be practiced; attitude was alchemy. In the late 1960s, when British players were busy perfecting blues-derived precision, Hendrix arrived with a style that felt less like refinement and more like liberation: feedback as color, distortion as mood, showmanship as punctuation. Blackmore’s admiration reads like an older system recognizing its successor.

There’s also a cultural charge hiding in the simplicity. Hendrix’s “walk” hints at the way a Black American artist moved through (and electrified) a largely white rock ecosystem, carrying not only sound but a self-possession that couldn’t be imitated without turning into costume. Blackmore’s line is short because the point is: you couldn’t teach it. You either had that gravity, or you didn’t.