Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
LEMMYYou can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
More Lemmy Quotes
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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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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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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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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 never thought it was an option.
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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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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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