Ginger Baker Quotes

United Kingdom, Drummer
August 19, 1939 – October, 6, 2019.

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker was an English drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Cream. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer," for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music.

Also known as Musician

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

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- Music
- Love
- Business
It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.

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- Play
- Sometimes
- Feels

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.

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- Feels
- Honor
- Deserve
People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

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- Abortion
- Metals
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

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- Jazz
- Rocks
- Rock And Roll
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.

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- Should
- Cases
- Abortion
God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

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- Past
- Pain
- Punishment
I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.

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- Play
- Stills
- Amazed

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

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- World
- Government
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

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- Music
I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

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- Taken
- Week
- Records