I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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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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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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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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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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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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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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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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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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 was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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