Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
LEMMYI don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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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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I like hard, aggressive music.
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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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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Rock 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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I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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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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I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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