Bruce Dickinson famous quotes

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Player #Iron #Trying

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Band #World #Heavy Metal

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Jobs #Pilots #Way

Engineering stimulates the mind.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Engineering #Mind

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!
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Captains #Fame #Beam

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.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Rocks #Years #Two

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

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

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.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Sports #Thinking #People

Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Funny #Life Is Too Short #Life Is Short

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

#Fun #Rocks #Rock N Roll

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Guitar #Concerned

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

#Rocks #Want #Rock N Roll

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

#Should #Arbiter

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Fashion #Icons #Life Is

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

#Needs #Fundamentals #Enabling

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Prisms

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

#Mum #Accidents

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

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

#Engineering #Shelves #Ask Me

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Daydreaming #Very Good

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Iron #Needs #Maidens

I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Thinking #Great Music #Manson

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Want #Pounds #Aviation

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

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Creative #Littles #Sometimes

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

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.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Kings #Philosophical #Men

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

(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) 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 #Firsts #Tribes

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Two #Bullshit #Categories

Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Dirty #School #Kids

I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Phones #People #World

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

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

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 #Voice #Practice

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

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

#Teacher #Engineering #Interesting

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Reading #Festivals #Tents

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.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Dream #Expression #Years

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Touring #Solo

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

#Trying #Green #Pilots

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Iron #Quitting #Institutions

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Blow #Labels #Band

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Dad #World #Care

South Wales is a hub of aviation.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Aviation #Wales

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

#Albums #Form #Artwork

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

#Looks #Band #Internet

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

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.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Football #Trying #World

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

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

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

Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Eagles #Way #Sun

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Forever #Lasts #Nothing Lasts Forever

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

#Guy #Influence #Arthur