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• ‟ I've tried to avoid the rock & roll highway and have taken the scenic route. I think all the guys have been more concerned with the music and the band's legacy than with the commercial aspects of life.

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

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• ‟ I've been in music all my life.

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• ‟ Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and soul and God knows what. It's a vast range of expressions.

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

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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 say, 'It's so and so, or it's so and so.' But with bands, everyone feels an obligation to categorize them.

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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 rehearsals - it all stems from the music.

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