Quotes by Bruce Dickinson - Page 2

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Iron
Iron Maiden
Next Year
Quiet
Quiet Time
Solo
Album
Time Good New
Maiden
Releasing
Solo Career
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In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Degrees
Flying
Math
Physics
Subjects
Teenage
Teenage Years
Years
Maths
Weakest
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One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Mistake
Nine
Pencils
School
Shortage
Years
Earliest
Fundamental
Stole
Ventures
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A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Conflict
Gone
Iron
Iron Maiden
Long
Odd
Awry
Maiden
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I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Jobs
Aircraft
Curious
Jet
Pilots
Way
Intended
John
Pilot
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If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Determined
Groundhog Day
Prepared
Regimes
Submit
Life Day My Life
Regime
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Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Kids
Bored
Dirty
Engineering
Hands
Mind
School
Fix
Easily
Dismantle
Engineer
Got
Offer
Schools
Stimulates
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I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Sports
Best Way
Excuse
Max
People
Thinking
Best Good People
Best Good Start
Carry
Sport
Start
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I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Arenas
Interesting Thing
Lots And Lots
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I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Iron
Leaving
Mean
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My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Practice
Son
Voice
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My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Hats
Losing
Reasonable
Singer
Practices
Vocals
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I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Assistants
Battered
Outlook
People
Phones
Secretary
Worst Person
World People Person
Answering
World People Find
Phone
Express
Manager
Oldest
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In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Beer
Class
Fun
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In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Artist
Ideas
Rocks
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When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Creatures
Cutting
Gratification
Gucci
Heat
Human Beings
Light
Shelter
Shoes
Simple
Size
Warmth
Build
Beings
Consumer
Cut
Desires
Finally
Ultimately
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King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Kings
Men
Philosophical
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You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.
Bruce Dickinson / Musician
Book
Mother
Wall
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