Originally Posted by: Svanholm
I have been playing for a while now and realised that the scale doesent really matter.[/quote]
Any notes you play can be found in or organized into a scale. So, you don't have to be aware of it. But the scales are still there. Being aware of the scales & using them in order to achieve the sound you desire is the end goal.
[QUOTE=Svanholm]
As long as I key on the key note, I can play what lick i want realted to any scale.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Maybe you mean if you land on a note in key or a chord tone at the beginning or end of a lick then any scale sounds good? But, the term key literally means which scale you are referring to. So, you can play in or out of key. You can play in and out of key (some notes in, some notes out on any given lick). There are lots of ways to approach it. :)