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.
LEMMYI 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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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 learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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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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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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