Eric Burdon Quotes

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Eric Burdon

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 11, 1941

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

Eric Burdon

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 cannot exist without the other.

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From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

Eric Burdon

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.

Eric Burdon

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

Eric Burdon

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

Eric Burdon

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 the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

Eric Burdon

Blues was made for the recessed.

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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

Eric Burdon

You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.

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The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

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Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.

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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.

Eric Burdon

I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.

Eric Burdon

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

Eric Burdon

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

Eric Burdon

Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.

Eric Burdon

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 gods.

Eric Burdon

I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

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OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.

Eric Burdon