Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
LEMMYI don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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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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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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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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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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 listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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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