The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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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The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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I never thought it was an option.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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