I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
LEMMYI don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
More Lemmy Quotes
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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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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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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