I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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 wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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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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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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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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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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