I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
LEMMYGrowing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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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Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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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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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 miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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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 don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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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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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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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 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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