Ian Gillan

I love Buffalo. The people here are wonderful, genuine; they look you straight in the eye.

— Ian Gillan

I've been in music all my life.

— Ian Gillan

If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music.…

— Ian Gillan

I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.

— Ian Gillan

No matter what I do, I've always recognized that Deep Purple is primarily an instrumental band. That's where all the music comes…

— Ian Gillan

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

— Ian Gillan

When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and…

— Ian Gillan

Deep Purple was sinking with Ritchie. We were playing to quarter houses in Europe, which is one of our strongest territories -…

— Ian Gillan

My first contract was in 1965. There were six of us in this band - my band before Deep Purple - six…

— Ian Gillan

In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating…

— Ian Gillan

I was an avid collector of Elvis' early stuff; for a young singer, he was an absolute inspiration. I soaked up what…

— Ian Gillan

The people who come to Purple shows are there for the music.

— Ian Gillan

How could I resist? Look, I love that record and have nothing but great, great memories of my time with BLACK SABBATH…

— Ian Gillan

If you've got a wound, and it's just about to heal up, and it's got a nice scab on it, and you…

— Ian Gillan

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

— Ian Gillan

We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came…

— Ian Gillan

The thing about a band is, it's not so much how good the musicians are - it's the blend of personalities and…

— Ian Gillan

Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.

— Ian Gillan

Elvis's voice was unique. Like so many others, he had natural, technical ability, but there was something in the humanity of his…

— Ian Gillan

The thing to remember when you're re-recording pieces from the past is that you have to have respect for the original performances,…

— Ian Gillan

The one thing nobody was taught was how to deal with success, and I think that happens to everyone who makes it…

— Ian Gillan

I love extended solos. I used to like them in the old days a lot, because it used to give me time…

— Ian Gillan

Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and…

— Ian Gillan

If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.

— Ian Gillan

I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.

— Ian Gillan