I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
LEMMYI was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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Rock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.
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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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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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 like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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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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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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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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