I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
LEMMYI saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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In 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.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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 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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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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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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 don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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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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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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