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"Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only."
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"In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on."
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"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."

"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed."

"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."

"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."

"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."

"Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair."

"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."
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