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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More Lemmy Quotes
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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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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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’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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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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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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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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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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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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Gay people are made and not born.
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