I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
LEMMYI’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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 make a very good steak.
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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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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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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 was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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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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