Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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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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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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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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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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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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 never thought it was an option.
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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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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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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 don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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 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 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 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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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 was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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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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