As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
LEMMYI find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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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 can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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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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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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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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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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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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