Quotes by Jack Bruce - Page 1

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know
Jack Bruce / Musician
Bass
Knows
Player
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Fantastic
Fathers
Musicians
Richards
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Glasgow
Seemed
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What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
Jack Bruce / Musician
African
Rhythms
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I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Wake Up
Clapton
Eric Clapton
Wake
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Great Music
Great Music Always
African
Music Great Always
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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.
Jack Bruce / Musician
America
Done
Suffering
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We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Justified
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Anti Semitism
Jew
Paradox
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Earning
Performing
Age Money Me
Began
Evenings
Pleased
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Lifestyle
Problem
Range
Vocal
Healthier
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Since I got my new liver, some of my tastes have changed. There are certain things I don't like anymore. I loved Indian food before but not now.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Indian
Liver
Certain Things
Tastes
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Buying
Late
Scotland
West Coast
Endlessly
Island
Sixties
Thankfully
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Okay
Parent
Category
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I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Aim
Composition
Cream
Big Difference
Musicians
Owning
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
Jack Bruce / Musician
First Love
House
Piano
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Genuine
Hurt
Long
Memorial
Now And Then
Ready
Tribute
Period
Obviously
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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.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Battle
Laughing
Matter
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I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Church
Composition
Conducting
Conservatory
Scholarship
Scottish
Solo
Study
Choirs
Classical
Listened
Sung
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Big Companies
Country
Gone
Needs
Although
Companies
Panicked
Sales
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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.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Play
Writing
Years
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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.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Rocks
Track
Writing
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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.
Jack Bruce / Musician
People
Player
Thinking
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I was a big fan of Gary Moore, he was my buddy and I miss him a lot. I loved his playing because you've got that passion; it was sort of a Celtic thing. The Irish and Scots they just go for it and not too worried about looking good. When I was in the states touring, I landed in Seattle to do a gig and one of the fans came to me and told me about Gary's death. It was very hard for me to carry on, it was awful.
Jack Bruce / Musician
Fans
Missing
Passion
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