I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
LEMMYI don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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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 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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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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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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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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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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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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