Ginger Baker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Pain #Past #Wickedness
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
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
I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
-- Ginger Baker

#Great Love #Music Business
I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
-- Ginger Baker

#Taken #Careers #Two
I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
-- Ginger Baker

#Thinking #Government #World
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
-- Ginger Baker

#Hate #Rocks #Rock And Roll
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
-- Ginger Baker

#Jazz #Jazz Music
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
People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.
-- Ginger Baker

#Should Have #People #Abortion
I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.
-- Ginger Baker

#Play #Amazed #Stills

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