You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
LEMMYI never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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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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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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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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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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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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 guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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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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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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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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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 never thought it was an option.
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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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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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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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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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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 write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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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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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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