My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals they’re screaming-growling stuff and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, ‘Hats off to you.’

— Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson Quotes

I was an accident – my mum was only 16 when she had me.

— Bruce Dickinson

The mystical poetry of William Blake’s artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

— Bruce Dickinson

My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals they’re screaming-growling stuff and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, ‘Hats off to you.’

— Bruce Dickinson

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it’s because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

— Bruce Dickinson

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 off.

— Bruce Dickinson

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.

— Bruce Dickinson

I’ve been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

— Bruce Dickinson

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Don’t ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

— Bruce Dickinson

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

— Bruce Dickinson

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

— Bruce Dickinson

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I’d convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

— Bruce Dickinson

My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world’s smallest club. At least you have to try.

— Bruce Dickinson

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it’s going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

— Bruce Dickinson

I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he’s very talented and he did make some great music.

— Bruce Dickinson

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There’s a world gone crazy, cause it can’t say no.

— Bruce Dickinson

South Wales is a hub of aviation.

— Bruce Dickinson

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

— Bruce Dickinson

I’m not going to do any more solo touring.

— Bruce Dickinson

I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.

— Bruce Dickinson

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it’s evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

— Bruce Dickinson

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