Eric Burdon Quotes

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.

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

Blues was made for the recessed.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

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

This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

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

If you think that UFOs will come and save you, don't be fooled. The Nazis invented UFOs ...

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.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

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

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.