I make a very good steak.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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Rock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.
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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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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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 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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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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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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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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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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 the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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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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