It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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I never thought it was an option.
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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 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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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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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 don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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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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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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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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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’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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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’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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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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