Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
LEMMYFrom the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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 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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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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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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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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 hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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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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I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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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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 am emphatically not a Nazi.
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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