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.
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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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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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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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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I like hard, aggressive music.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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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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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 brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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 always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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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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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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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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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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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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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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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 only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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