“I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.” — Bun E. Carlos Quote

“I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.”

“In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.”

“The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.”

“A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'”

“Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.”

“I hate swimming, as a rule. I only do it because I have a bad back but, because my improvised 'stroke' is so erratic, it sends my spine into a spin and so - ironically, I suppose - my back deteriorates with each session.”