Ginger Baker Quotes

Ginger Baker — British Musician born on August 19, 1939,

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker is an English drummer, best known as the founder of the rock band Cream. Baker's work in the 1960s earned him praise as "rock's first superstar drummer", although his individual style melded a jazz background with his personal interest in African rhythms. Baker is an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Cream and is widely considered one of the most influential drummers of all time, recognised by his induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2008, and a pioneer of drumming in genres like jazz fusion, heavy metal and world music... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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