Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
LEMMYRock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.
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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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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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