My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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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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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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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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