People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
LEMMYIt just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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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 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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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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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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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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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