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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More Lemmy Quotes
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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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I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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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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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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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’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 don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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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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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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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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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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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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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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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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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 didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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