People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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 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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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
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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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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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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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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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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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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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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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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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