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Eric Burdon Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 11, 1941

Topics

Me Blues Always Everything Younger

I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

Fire People Perception Think You

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.'

Great School Talent You Body Way

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

Time Song Doing You Sometimes Hard

The mythic journey is always about selflessness.

Journey Always About Selflessness

This is a broad thought, but loving yourself and having the support so that you can love yourself is the most important thing that young people in Chicago can get.

Love Yourself Support Love Yourself

How can you turn down Marks and Gran? Their scripts are so rich in texture.

Rich You Down Turn Texture How

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

Walk People Me Walking Worry First

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends.

Home Age Cake Me Mom Sister

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Poetry Painting Silent Speaks

It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.

Good Small Country Run Difference

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

Better Consequences Understand Than

I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball.

Baseball Me Wait Play Go Want

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