Quotes by Jack Bruce

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

Do you know a magazine called the National Enquirer? In the current issue, somebody drew it to my attention, there's a picture of me, like a very young picture of me, and there's a picture of Eric Clapton now and a picture of me then, and it says this is how Eric Clapton has aged.

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

I'm not going with some big time producer who takes over completely and I'm just a sideman. I wouldn't fancy that really.

So I do think of myself in that way as hopefully someone who will go on as long as there's an audience and as long as I can without striving to have huge hit records because I think in a way if I'd had hit singles or something like that years ago it would have been difficult for me to carry on the way I have.

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

Well, I can tell you the first record I ever stole - I wasn't so well off in those days.

Well, it's a very mundane answer I'm afraid, nothing to do with Eric Clapton or born again religions or anything like that.

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.