I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
LEMMYI can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
More Lemmy Quotes
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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’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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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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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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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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I like hard, aggressive music.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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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 wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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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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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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