Quotes by Eric Burdon

About Eric Burdon:

Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a member and vocalist of rock band the Animals and the funk band War and for his aggressive stage performance. He was ranked 57th in Rolling Stone's list The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
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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.

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I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my fa...

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I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years ...

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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.

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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.

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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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I look upon The Animals, they were a great band initially, we left our mark, but thing was it was a band that couldn't live up to its name so I soldiered on. On one level, it was devastating for a while. On another level, maybe I should thank them fo...

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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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As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.

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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 lit...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.

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One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families an...

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameEric Burdon
  • DescriptionEnglish singer-songwriter, member of The Animals
  • AliasesEric Victor Burdon
  • BornMay 11, 1941
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionSinger; Actor; Songwriter; Singer-songwriter