Doing Quote by 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. You just…

— 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 from in…

— 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 all of…

— Ian Gillan

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

— Ian Gillan

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

— 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 it, putting…

— Ian Gillan

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

— Ian Gillan

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

— Ian Gillan