33 Bruce Dickinson Quotes

Bruce Dickinson quotes

1. Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue.

2. Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

3. That gives me tremendous encouragement and optimism for the human race in general, that people choose to go off and do their own things.

4. I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.

5. Alice is much a focused rebellion, he's a fantastic cartoon character almost, if you like, and therefore he's still successful today-my kid, 11 years old, loves Alice Cooper.

6. I don't even think that you can call Iron Maiden 100% real metal. Iron Maiden is beyond that and always has been. That is one of the things that America has always had a problem with, but right now we might be moving to a point where by America may actually understand what Maiden is all about. We'll see.

7. I'll be arriving at the last possible minute and walking on stage raging and pillaging and then disappearing immediately afterwards.

8. 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.

9. I dreamt for years about making albums and doing world tours-I'd fulfilled all my ambitions in one year.

10. Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

11. I've always enjoyed reading lyrics, trying to do them more than just lyrics, trying to have some more meaning in them. I know a lot of people are just happy to have a kind of broken word lyrics. I just wonder why, there's no reason why they can't at least attempt to do something a bit better.

1. A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

2. There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

3. If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

4. With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

5. If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

6. The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

7. 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.

8. Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

9. Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

10. There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

17. There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

18. When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

19. Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

20. Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.

21. I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.

22. Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.