Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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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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I never thought it was an option.
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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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I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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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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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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