It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
LEMMYRock 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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’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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I like hard, aggressive music.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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