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“Although he appeared in some awful movies, Elvis could also be pretty damn good as an actor.” quote by Ian Gillan — Download Open image

“Although he appeared in some awful movies, Elvis could also be pretty damn good as an actor.”

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

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I've been in music all my life.

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

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I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.

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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…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

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I'm an actor, so I'm never going to feel like I've done enough.

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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

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