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?
LEMMYThe 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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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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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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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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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 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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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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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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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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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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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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 don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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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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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