Roger Glover Quotes

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.

Also known as Record Producer, Songwriter

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.

Roger Glover
- Writing
- Kind
- Confusion
You can't play bass in a vacuum.

Roger Glover
- Play
- Bass
- Vacuum

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

Roger Glover
- Want
- Produce
- Anyone
If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.

Roger Glover
- Everything
- Listen
- Charts
I enjoy anything to do with music.

Roger Glover
- Music
- Enjoy
- Anything
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.

Roger Glover
- Music
- Rock
- Listen
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.

Roger Glover
- Interesting
- Bored
- Rocks
I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.

Roger Glover
- Music
- Enough
- Before

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

Roger Glover
- Family
- Friends
- Being
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.

Roger Glover
- Good
- Audience
- Songs