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" Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge. "

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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. "

Eric Burdon

Performance

Better

Life

" 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. "

" There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place. "

" You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Eric Burdon

Exit

Suicide

" 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. "

" 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. "

Eric Burdon

World

Change

" 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. "

" 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 and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music. "

" 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. "

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

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

" On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live. "

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

Eric Burdon

Everything

Blues

" People we've encountered at pivotal moments who profoundly influence our direction are not necessarily the people whose names everybody knows. More often, they are the people who say or do just the right thing, at the right time. "

" 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 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 family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs. "

" 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 with my head held high. "

Eric Burdon

Power

My Life

" 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 little clean water to drink. "

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

" 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. "

" Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.' "

" 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. "