Top 27 Quotes About Ginger Baker
#1. My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback. And then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo.
Chris Hemsworth
#2. I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
Halle Berry
#3. I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
Ginger Baker
#4. They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.
Terry Pratchett
#5. If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
Ginger Baker
#6. They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth.
Adam Baker
#8. First is a poem, a ballad, out of Scotland. You may say there is no king in it, and of course there isn't, which is what makes it so sad. The last line of the third verse, 'O he might hae been a king' is so sad that I don't like to look at it with both eyes at once.
William Mayne
#9. A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#10. I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
Ginger Baker
#11. It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.
Hans Arp
#12. I'm very nice. I'm nice to everyone who deserves my niceness. -Emmy
Robin Benway
#13. God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
Ginger Baker
#14. What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
Elisabeth Elliot
#15. They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
Ginger Baker
#16. I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
Ginger Baker
#17. I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.
Ginger Baker
#18. People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.
Ginger Baker
#19. Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.
Iqbal Quadir
#20. In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.
Ginger Baker
#21. I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
Alan Greenspan
#22. You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.
Gerald Celente
#23. I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me.
Cush Jumbo
#24. The Hinley pond-poet Herbert Miles had referred to us as "that gaggle o' geese who gossip gaily 'pon the gladdening green," and there
Alan Bradley
#25. I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.
Utada Hikaru
#26. I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.
Charles B. Rangel
#27. I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
Ginger Baker
