I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
LEMMYIt’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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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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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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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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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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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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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 don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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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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