Bruce Dickinson Quotes

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Bruce Dickinson

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 7, 1958

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

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My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

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If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

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Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

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I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

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I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

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Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

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If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

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South Wales is a hub of aviation.

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I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

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Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

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I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

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Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

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Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

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I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

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I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

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A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

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A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

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My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

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When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

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