Ian Gillan Quotes

I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.

My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.

Lemmy Kilmeister is most certainly a rocker.

I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music. That's when all the forces combined together-the talent that was available and the freedom for the artists. The industry hadn't become so gigantic.

I would never have thought I would see Axl Rose, someone who was so important to rock 'n' roll.

A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.

I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN'R, Megadeth - just classic rock, classic metal stuff.

I’ve always loved Alice Cooper.

When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences.

I want to play Keith Richards.

I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.

By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.

I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.

There will never be another Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock and roll singers.

People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.

The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.