Steve Jones Quotes

#1. I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.

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#2. I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.

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#3. I don't want to play stinking, beer-ridden clubs. It depresses me even thinking about that. I really hate it when you're finished with a show and you're in your dressing room with that stink of beer and sweaty girls. It brings back an ugly picture for me. I'd hate to have to do that again.

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#4. Science is a broad church full of narrow minds, trained to know ever more about even less.

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#5. Sex must be important as it is so expensive.

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#6. However precise the results offered by paternity testers, the truth was recognized by societies that flourished long before they appeared: that fatherhood means more than genes alone.

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#7. Although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence.

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#8. When I was in the Sex Pistols, I listened to Boston. But I couldn't tell anybody, you know. I'd get lynched.

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#9. I couldn't care less about what people think of me! I do what I do, and I don't care about what other people think is cool. I don't care about image!

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#10. The Sex Pistols was a part of my life. Just a small part.

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#11. I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.

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#12. I never read. I've never read one book ... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or ... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother.

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#13. I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

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#14. My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.

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#15. Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions of the new proletariat. he sent Darwin a copy of 'Das Kapital' (which was found unread after his death).

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#16. I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.

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#17. Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.

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#18. I live in Beverly Hills and I'm proud of it. The only things I miss are pie and mash shops and football games. I've lived in America longer than I lived in England. When I first got here, it just felt right to me. I like the open space, and the weather's great.

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#19. In the end, though, science is what matters; scientists not a bit.

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#20. I wouldn't mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I'd like to do be a bit of guitar with them guys. I'll play on anyone's record to be honest with you.

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#21. I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit in the Sex Pistols - that is, until we got John Lydon. And then I realized I wasn't really suited as a front guy.

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#22. I'm tired of Glen Matlock saying he was the songwriter for the Sex Pistols. I co-wrote as many songs ... but I don't go shouting about it.

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#23. To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas - that does not make us half bananas!

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#24. We're not into music. We're into chaos.

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#25. Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.

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#26. I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

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#27. I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.

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#28. I might do a solo album, maybe do covers, or do an acoustic thing. No Sex Pistols tours, nothing!

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#29. It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.

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#30. Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.

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