Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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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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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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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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’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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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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 don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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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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