Quotes by Ginger Baker (born 19 August 1939)

Ginger Baker Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

- 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.

- In 1968, I was driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a Shelby Cobra with three gorgeous young birds. Suddenly, the radio program was interrupted to report that I'd just been found in my hotel room dead from an overdose.

- You can chuck things into a computer and get people off the street who look great, but in the end they aren't going to do anything that lasts.

- 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.

- Beautiful summer afternoon, loads of people -- well over 100,000. Happy, relaxed, laid back gig -- not loud on stage. Just pleasant volume unlike (the) preceding band I played with.

- My favorite tracks are 'Sea of Joy', 'Can't Find My Way Home,' 'Presence of the Lord' and 'Had to Cry Today' -- all four are classics. If Blind Faith had not been such a brief thing, would probably all have been released as singles. Great shame.

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