Jack Bruce Quotes

Jack Bruce — Musician born on May 14, 1943, died on October 25, 2014

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce was a Scottish musician, composer and vocalist, known primarily for his contributions to the British supergroup Cream, which also included guitarist-singer Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker. In March, 2011, Rolling Stone readers selected him as the eighth greatest bass guitarist of all time. "Most musicians would have a very hard time distinguishing themselves if they wound up in a band with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker," the magazine said at the time, "but Jack Bruce was so gifted on the bass that he did it with ease.".. (wikipedia)

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

Since I got my new liver, some of my tastes have changed. There are certain things I don't like anymore. I loved Indian food before but not now.

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.

Jack Bruce Quotes

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