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"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."
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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."
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"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."
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"The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."
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"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."
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"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."
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"They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening."
Music
"As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle."
Body
"Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it."
Attitude
"You've got to really know your song, inside and out."
Music
"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."
Work
"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."
Now
"Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine."
Military
"If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination."
World
"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
Business
"I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you."
Experience
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