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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. "
Eric Burdon
You
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" 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. "
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" The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic. "
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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 and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music. "
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" Blues was made for the recessed. "
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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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" 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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" The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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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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Me
Everything
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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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" 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.' "
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American
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" 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. "
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Men
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" 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. "
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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 for helping me make my own way in my own career. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Cooking
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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 family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs. "
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" 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. "
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" Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California. "
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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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Life
" 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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" 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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" From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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