Cream Quotes
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If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.
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I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.
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I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.
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Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know
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I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
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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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I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
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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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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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People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.
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God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
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I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
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I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
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If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
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I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.