On Memorial Day, I dont want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live. – Eric Burdon
I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California – its the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees. – Eric Burdon
I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasnt available in the U.K., so I turned to music. – Eric Burdon
Only roam on, therefore, all fearless, in the many garden of romantic chivalrous poesy, which drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. – C.O. Müller (Karl Otfried Müller), Introduction to a Scientific System