You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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’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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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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