Roger Glover Quotes
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.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
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I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out.
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I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.
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You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.
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I'm a hard-luck kind of guy. Usually, things that I hope for don't go my way, so I'm very used to that. In fact, I expect it.
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There is nothing like this extended family that is Fleetwood Mac. And I think you have to say, for all the perceived and real dysfunction that there has been, underneath that, there is and always has been a great deal of love. And that keeps pulling us back together.
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A lot of my friends who are white are like, 'Dude, I can't get an audition; it's all Hispanic and black.' It's about time.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.
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I think we're in a very low point of music right now.
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How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
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I'm not a fan of chrome wheels. I sort of like brushed, brushed steel, more European style.
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What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
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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.
