Bruce Dickinson
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Biography
Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English musician who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day.
"Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting."
"Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue."
"(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?"
"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."
"I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!"
"The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover."
"Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing."
"Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers."
"My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'"