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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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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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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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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The 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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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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I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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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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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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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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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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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