Ginger Baker Quotes

• God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

  Ginger Baker

  God, Pain, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

  Ginger Baker

  Should Have, People, Abortion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ginger Baker

  Mean, Play, Three

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• I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

  Ginger Baker

  Thinking, Government, World

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• I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

  Ginger Baker

  Hate, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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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.

  Ginger Baker

  Abortion, Birth, Heavy Metal

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• If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

  Ginger Baker

  Jazz, Jazz Music, Ifs

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• I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.

  Ginger Baker

  Play, Amazed, Stills

  "Drumming Legend Ginger Baker Is 'Amazed' He Can Still Play". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.esquire.com. June 24, 2014.

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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.

  Ginger Baker

  Virginia, Firefighter, Honor

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• I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

  Ginger Baker

  Great Love, Music Business

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• I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

  Ginger Baker

  Taken, Careers, Two

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