Chris Hillman Quotes

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.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.

I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.

I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They're just so brilliant because they breathe.

I used to love Deep Purple and Ian Paice.

Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel aspect, it took some rock & rollers to introduce a new generation to it, and it kinda put some things straight.

I don't physically put Appetite For Destruction in and listen to it, but I hear it on the radio or at sporting events or wherever else it pops up, and it's great. I dig everything about it. When I hear Appetite, it sounds like exactly what it was. It sounds like a record made by an angry bunch of kids.

I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

I remember the first vinyl I bought: 'Purple Rain,' my favorite Prince album, ever.

Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.

I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.

I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.

I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.

I thank God for all the independent hard rock that I grew up with.

When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff - Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even now, to this day, it's the music I listen to a lot of the time.

I was interested in music since I was 14 years old. What really got me started was the first Led Zeppelin album... absolutely.

I think a lot of people could do with buying a Flying Burrito Brothers record - it does wonders for you.

I have lots of memories of Zeppelin. And I know the joy it gives fans when I tell them stories. I see their faces light up.

In the beginning, we were a real good, straight rock 'n' roll band. We were writing quality tunes.

Back when I was growing up, if I loved a song, I would record it off of the radio so I could hear them as many times as I wanted.

I still play my old vinyl LPs - I like the scratches - and I miss browsing in record shops, because they held great nostalgia for me.

I loved the Everly Brothers better than anybody.

I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.

I do remember being a kid and hearing Van Halen. My dad was always playing Van Halen in the car.