Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
LEMMYElvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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 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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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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 don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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