You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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 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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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