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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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 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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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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I make a very good steak.
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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 like hard, aggressive music.
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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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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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 listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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 don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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