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DEEP PURPLE' Roger Glover On
Success
RG: Success is nothing to be avoided. It's
great to be successful. It vindicates all the
hard work. There's a reason to do it. You
don't do it to make a flop. You do it to
enjoy yourselves but you also do it because
you want to turn people on to your music.
That's an obvious thing. I think it was
Jimi Hendrix who once said ages and ages ago
when someone said "oh, all these pop
hits, doesn't that take away your rock
credibility?" and he said " hey
it's not a bad thing when you walk into a
pub and you have your song playing on the
jukebox". It's, nothing wrong with
that, it's nothing wrong with having a hit
single. It's all the better if it's
done on your terms. You don't have to get
out and get some songwriting team do it. I
was a great Bob Dylan fan and I couldn't
figure out why he was so good because I
thought everything he did was good. Even when
he was breathing I thought he was great. Even
a bit of grunt here and there, a badly played
guitar... I still thought it was great. But I
could never be a Bob Dylan because I was
trying and he wasn't. He was just being
himself. He just had that magic touch. That
magic touch you either have or you haven't
got it and I suddenly realised, in the making
of this album, that I'm in a band that has
that magic touch. We're not trying to be
someone else. We just try to be ourselves.
And whatever that is, that's the shape of
it, whatever comes out naturally. So
commercialising no. Selling records would be
lovely. However if we don't sell records,
to me the album is a huge success anyway. You
always have to have that attitude. I've
done solo albums that I knew wasn't going
to be successful. But to me they were
successful.
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