Top 20 Jack Bruce Quotes

#1. I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

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#2. Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

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#3. We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

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#4. At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

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#5. Since I got my new liver, some of my tastes have changed. There are certain things I don't like anymore. I loved Indian food before but not now.

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#6. I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.

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#7. I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

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

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#9. Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

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#10. Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

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

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#12. I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.

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#13. Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

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#14. 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.

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#15. The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

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#16. 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 you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.

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

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

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

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#20. Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

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