Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
LEMMYThe Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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I make a very good steak.
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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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