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Things evolve. People mature.
I've been in music all my life.
I've never listened to any of Purple Mk III's records.
One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.
It's a fine line between self-assuredness and arrogance.
My father was a storekeeper at a factory in west London.
It means a lot to a lot of people, 'Smoke On The Water.'
The people who come to Purple shows are there for the music.
We were the first generation of rock & roll, but life goes on.
We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.
I've always been optimistic - I always expect the sun to come out.
I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.
Singles - we hated it, going on 'Top Of The Pops' and all that rubbish.
When I was a kid, every street had a band, and we'd steal members from each other.
I like walking and hiking, and many of the ideas for songs have germinated from this.
Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.
I love Buffalo. The people here are wonderful, genuine; they look you straight in the eye.
Our partying was governed by licensing hours. When the pub or club shut, that would be it.
For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.
Although he appeared in some awful movies, Elvis could also be pretty damn good as an actor.
If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.
Internet is a good and convenient device for us for easy communication. It has lots of value.
Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.
We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.
I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.
When you're young, you're immortal, or so you think, and you never think there will be problems ahead.
I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.
What happens is we finish the show, have a couple of drinks, go back to the hotel, talk, and that's it.
'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.
I assume I must have a pension, but I don't know for sure. I have heard of ISAs, but I can't tell you if I have any.
Can you imagine doing 'Nessa Dorma' with Luciano Pavarotti the maestro? It's unbelievable. He's a very generous man.
I wake up every day looking forward to the concert that night. I don't think you need much more inspiration than that.
I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.
The biggest income we make is from live performances, without any doubt. That's about a 4-to-1 ratio from anything else.
If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.
To the general public in America, the lifespan of Deep Purple probably finished with our 1984 album, 'Perfect Strangers.'
The one thing nobody was taught was how to deal with success, and I think that happens to everyone who makes it at a young age.
I love extended solos. I used to like them in the old days a lot, because it used to give me time to go to the pub for a drink.
I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.
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.
Rock music had its own constituency, its own steering wheel. It was beyond the control of the establishment, and we saw TV as the enemy.
You can never criticize a monumental musician like Jon Lord or Richie Blackmore, or the part they played in the group, but life goes on.
It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.
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.
I don't think we were anti-commercial. But we were anti-contrivance, and like Zeppelin, we found dignity through the music we were playing.
The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.
When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of a sudden, I could play the blues.
We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.
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.
I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.