Jack Bruce

I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny…

— Jack Bruce

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric…

— Jack Bruce

At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my…

— Jack Bruce

I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music…

— Jack Bruce

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

— Jack Bruce

I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

— Jack Bruce

I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own…

— Jack Bruce

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

— Jack Bruce

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have…

— Jack Bruce

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still…

— Jack Bruce

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

— Jack Bruce

I was a big fan of Gary Moore, he was my buddy and I miss him a lot. I loved his playing…

— Jack Bruce

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

— Jack Bruce

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in…

— Jack Bruce

If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to…

— Jack Bruce

Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.

— Jack Bruce

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of…

— Jack Bruce

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened…

— Jack Bruce

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being…

— Jack Bruce

Since I got my new liver, some of my tastes have changed. There are certain things I don't like anymore. I loved…

— Jack Bruce

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

— Jack Bruce

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album,…

— Jack Bruce

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously…

— Jack Bruce

I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle…

— Jack Bruce