I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
LEMMYI don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
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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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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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 listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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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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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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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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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