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

Categorized in : People Phones Worst Person

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

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categories bullshit two

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

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life-is-too-short life-is-short funny

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.

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iron player trying

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

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heavy-metal band world

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

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nothing-lasts-forever lasts forever

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.

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sports people thinking

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.'

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dad care world

When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off

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employment iron lucky

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

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arbiter ifs should

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

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teenage song drama

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.

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kids dirty school

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

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eagles sun way

You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.

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wall mother book

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

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rock-n-roll rocks want

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.

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pilots jobs way

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.

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voice two years

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!

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captain-kirk captains fame

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?!?

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costa-rica albums dark

Engineering stimulates the mind.

Bruce Dickinson

engineering mind

$I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the pr... by Bruce Dickinson$

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

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prisms known