My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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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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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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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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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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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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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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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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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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 saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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I 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.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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