Bruce Dickinson
There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.Collection: Two
Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of changeCollection: Forever
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.Collection: Player
Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.Collection: Eagles
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.Collection: Song
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 offCollection: Iron
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.Collection: Mother
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.Collection: Philosophy
Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.Collection: Artist
In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun.Collection: Fun
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?!?Collection: Dark
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Mcdonalds
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.Collection: Kings
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!Collection: Reading
Bullying happens because weak people need to prop up their ego by beating up or humiliating others.Collection: Bullying
I’ve been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!Collection: Reading
Rock music should be gross: that’s the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.Collection: Fun