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.
LEMMYFrom the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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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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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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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 was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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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 never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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