I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
LEMMYIn every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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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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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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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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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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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’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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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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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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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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