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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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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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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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 like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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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 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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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
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