Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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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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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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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 don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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I never thought it was an option.
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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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 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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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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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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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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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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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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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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