I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
LEMMYIn 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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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 don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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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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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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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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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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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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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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 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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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 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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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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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 was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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