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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More Lemmy Quotes
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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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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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’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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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 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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