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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.”

  Bruce Dickinson

  Son, Practice, Voice

  "Iron Maiden’s secret to success". Interview with Ben Wener, www.ocregister.com. May 29, 2008.

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• Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Philosophy, Crazy, Gone

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• I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Daydreaming, Very Good, Asks

  "Q&A: Iron Maiden's Dickinson looks 'Back in Time'". Interview with Paul Sexton, www.reuters.com. May 12, 2008.

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

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Want, Auditions

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

  Bruce Dickinson

  Guitar, Concerned

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

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• 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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Cutting, Simple, Shoes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Needs, Maidens

  "Q&A: Iron Maiden's Dickinson looks 'Back in Time'". Interview with Paul Sexton, www.reuters.com. May 12, 2008.

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• Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Teacher, Engineering, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mean, Hands, Despair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Bruce Dickinson

  Song, Writing, People

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

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• 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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Fun, Beer, Class

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• The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Albums, Form, Artwork

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

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• It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?

  Bruce Dickinson

  Dark, Albums, Costa Rica

  "Iron Maiden: Flight 666". Documentary, Music, 2009.

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• In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Rocks, Ideas

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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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mean, Iron, Leaving

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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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mistake, School, Years

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

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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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Carbon Footprint, Trying, Green

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

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• 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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Journey, Drunk, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Giving, Training, Helping

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

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• 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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Teenage, Math, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Groundhog Day, Determined, Regimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Long, Gone

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

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

  Bruce Dickinson

  Engineering, Shelves, Ask Me

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

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• I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Touring, Solo

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

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• 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.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mcdonalds, Salary, Going For It

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