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" 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. "
Steve Jones
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Sex
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel. "
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" We didn't have lawyers and accountants. No one was watching out for our money. We'd go to the office and get money and go on our way. I was 19-20 years old then. I was stupid. I didn't know any better. We weren't getting our fair share of the money. That happens to young musicians all the time. It makes me mad when I think how stupid we were. "
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" 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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