I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
LEMMYI always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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I make a very good steak.
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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 am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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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 don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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 always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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