Ginger Baker quotes
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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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“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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“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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“I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.”
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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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“I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.”
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“If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.”
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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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“People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.”
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“I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.”
-- Ginger BakerSource : "Drumming Legend Ginger Baker Is 'Amazed' He Can Still Play". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.esquire.com. June 24, 2014.
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