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There used to be a time when ...

There used to be a time when people used to hold up cigarette lighters and candles at concerts, and the place was aglow to celebrate the end of the evening, or during a slow song, there was this congregational euphoria that used to exist. It still does, but now it's a question of iPhones being held up.

Ian Gillan 7 quotes

I wake up every day looking f...

I wake up every day looking forward to the concert that night. I don't think you need much more inspiration than that.

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I have been touring since I g...

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

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I have heard that my Wikipedi...

I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.

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'Classic rock' is never a lab...

'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.

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In the early Seventies, I bou...

In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about ?100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating it, putting in a guitar-shaped swimming pool, painting the bathrooms purple, and installing gold dolphin taps.

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No matter what I do, I've alw...

No matter what I do, I've always recognized that Deep Purple is primarily an instrumental band. That's where all the music comes from in rehearsals - it all stems from the music.

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I think there's something abo...

I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being.

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Purple - I mean, the music an...

Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and soul and God knows what. It's a vast range of expressions.

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I feel very fortunate to have...

I feel very fortunate to have been able to do what I do for a living.

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I've tried to avoid the rock ...

I've tried to avoid the rock & roll highway and have taken the scenic route. I think all the guys have been more concerned with the music and the band's legacy than with the commercial aspects of life.

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I realised that if I wanted t...

I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams, I had to change, so I started meditating, and I changed my life entirely.

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I can't do one thing at a tim...

I can't do one thing at a time. If I'm writing song lyrics, I've got to be doing the ironing or cooking or something while I'm working. If I just sit there and stare at the walls, I get nothing.

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An album represents an artist...

An album represents an artist or a band or a group of musicians at any given moment in time. You just produce the music that you feel good about and hope that the audience shows some interest in it.

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The band's a really close-kni...

The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.

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Can you imagine doing 'Nessa ...

Can you imagine doing 'Nessa Dorma' with Luciano Pavarotti the maestro? It's unbelievable. He's a very generous man.

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If you start adapting to audi...

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

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We soaked up everything from ...

We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.

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I used to do interviews - I s...

I used to do interviews - I still do - interviews every day, all day. And you go from maybe doing a couple of professional interviews, where you can hear the sound right, to everyone else sounds like they're at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

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To the general public in Amer...

To the general public in America, the lifespan of Deep Purple probably finished with our 1984 album, 'Perfect Strangers.'

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....