I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
LEMMYI find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
More Lemmy Quotes
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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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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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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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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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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