Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Ginger Baker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British musician Ginger Baker.

Last updated on September 30, 2024.

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker was an English drummer, composer, songwriter and a co-founder and occasional vocalist of the rock band Cream. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music.

British - Musician | August 19, 1939 - October 6, 2019

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I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

Ginger Baker

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

Ginger Baker

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.

Ginger Baker

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

Ginger Baker

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Ginger Baker

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

Ginger Baker

I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.

Ginger Baker

It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.

Ginger Baker

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

Ginger Baker

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

Ginger Baker

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

Ginger Baker