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.
LEMMYWe 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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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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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 wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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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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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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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 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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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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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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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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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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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