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.
LEMMYI always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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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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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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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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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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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 went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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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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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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