Eric Burdon Quotes

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

I used to think 63 was old.

I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it's very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.