Eric Burdon quotes

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it. (Eric Burdon)
As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.
Eric Burdon
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
Eric Burdon
I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.
Eric Burdon
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
Eric Burdon
My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.
Eric Burdon
Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.
Eric Burdon
From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.
Eric Burdon
I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.
Eric Burdon
I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.
Eric Burdon
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me. (Eric Burdon)
The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldnt live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.
Eric Burdon
Blues was made for the recessed.
Eric Burdon
OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
Eric Burdon
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles.
Eric Burdon
Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.
Eric Burdon
I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.
Eric Burdon
In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.
Eric Burdon
The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.
Eric Burdon
Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.
Eric Burdon
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz. (Eric Burdon)
It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
Eric Burdon
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
Eric Burdon
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
Eric Burdon
There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.
Eric Burdon