Bruce Dickinson Quotes

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

I'm huge fan of 'Timeflies.'

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

I think what AC/DC does best is play live. That's when everything comes together. Even after you make a studio album, when you go out and play live, that's when you learn what being in a band is all about.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

I was a huge 'Pyromania' fan. You would never expect it, but I was in love with Iron Maiden; I was such a huge fan. I went to a lot of rock stuff like Van Halen, too.

I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.

And the live show is still our main thing.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

I'm a Nickelback guy.

Spittin' blood, smokin' guitars, fire everywhere - Kiss is where I started.

I'm a crazy Journey fan.

It's been an incredible experience, playing with Twisted Sister, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, jamming with Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and the list goes on and on and on.

In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.

As a member of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and now Prophets of Rage I'm pretty used to coming on stage and there's a full house.

I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.

I loved Van Halen; I loved everything we did.

I'm a huge fan of Paolo Nutini, I'm so in love with his songs and his voice.

I enjoyed the idea of going and playing live. My beef was always with Wings that we never played live enough.