Bruce Dickinson Quotes
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Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
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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.
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The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
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Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.
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If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
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I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
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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.
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If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.
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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.
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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.”
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My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
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I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
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I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
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Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
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I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
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I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.
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Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
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A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
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Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.
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Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.
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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.
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There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.
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I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
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I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
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When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off
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South Wales is a hub of aviation.
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I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
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Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change
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