Bruce Dickinson Quotes

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Bruce Dickinson

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 7, 1958

I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.

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Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

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Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

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My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.

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With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

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I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

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I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.

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Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

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Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

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I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

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There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

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The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

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One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

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If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

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I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.

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Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

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I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

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When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

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The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

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I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

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