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.
LEMMYPeople don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
More Lemmy Quotes
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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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 like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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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 know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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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