Eric Burdon Quotes
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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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.
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If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
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Moments later he punched her unconscious. No, he didn't, don't send us letters.
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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.
