17 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

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

You can chuck things into a computer and get people off the street who look great, but in the end they aren't going to do anything that lasts.

Beautiful summer afternoon, loads of people -- well over 100,000. Happy, relaxed, laid back gig -- not loud on stage. Just pleasant volume unlike (the) preceding band I played with.

In 1968, I was driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a Shelby Cobra with three gorgeous young birds. Suddenly, the radio program was interrupted to report that I'd just been found in my hotel room dead from an overdose.