Ian Gillan Quotes

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

I was in two very horrible bands.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

I've been part of five different bands in my time.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.

I'm glad I was never in a band.

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

Every band goes through breakups or splits.

We've been here since 1983 as a band.

I've had a group ever since '36, off and on.

We've done a lot of shows and a few albums without Dirty. He was a wild and crazy dude.

We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.

Both of us knew the band had run its course. We were both unhappy doing it, but I think the way Andrew [Ridgeley] was being treated as the less important half of the duo had finally taken its toll on him.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.