Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Roger Glover

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British musician Roger Glover.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Roger Glover

Roger David Glover is a British bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the bassist for hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. As a member of Deep Purple, Glover was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2016.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.
It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked Deep Purple off as a name in Great Britain because it made all the newspapers. Everyone was writing about us. And there was some confusion as to what kind of band we were after that, which is why Deep Purple in Rock is such a hard unbending album of really furious hard heavy rock. Heavy metal hadn't been invented at that point.
I enjoy anything to do with music. — © Roger Glover
I enjoy anything to do with music.
If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.
I came back from Japanese tour a broken man to find that one of my outside productions was very high in the charts and that was Nazareth. I stepped into another career and suddenly became a well-known producer.
I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.
Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.
I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.
You can't play bass in a vacuum.
Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.
You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.
No one enjoys being away from friends and family.
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