Eric Burdon Quotes

Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

You blows who you is.

Be as you wish to seem.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

My work is intensely personal.

My philosophy is to be me.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

One creates oneself.

I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

The enormous potentiality for nature’s bounty and men’s capacity to differentiate their experience can become valued by the individual himself so that he will not be tempted and coerced into adjustment

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I only know how to be Sizzle.

When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

Everybody grows in their own way.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.