Eric Burdon Quotes

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• I look upon The Animals, they were a great band initially, we left our mark, but thing was it was a band that couldn't live…
• I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement…
• I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up…
• I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed…
• I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had…
• In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your…
• Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one…
• It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
• It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.
• Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed…
• My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a…
• Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to…
• The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.
• The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.
• There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.
• This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.
• You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the…

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