Quotes About Music

The difficulties people have with me are purely musical things, never personality things. But, you know that's just the way it goes. I like to get things right!

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

Of everything I've done in my career, or whatever you want to call it, 'Lost' is the purest version of me musically.

Music means life and love in its purest form. It's about capturing your emotions and celebrating everything about life.

His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.

I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

I just want to purify my body, purify my mind, and make good music and keep living my life.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

When I listen to our first album now, I can hear the purity of the oneness of leaving all earthly things aside to come together and create something. It's quite marvelous.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.

As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to the club afterwards, which was the Purple Onion then. There would be live bands playing, and in between that, the DJ would be playing records.

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

I know the guys in Metallica. I'm very honored that they were influenced by Deep Purple when they started, and they've always been very kind to us.

My favourite genre is probably Seventies rock: Deep Purple, Black Sabbath. I love that stuff because it's what everyone was into when I was a teenager.

I've never listened to any of Purple Mk III's records.

I used to love Deep Purple and Ian Paice.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.