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.
LEMMYI can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
More Lemmy Quotes
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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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I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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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 think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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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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