Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
LEMMYIt’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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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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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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I never thought it was an option.
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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 make a very good steak.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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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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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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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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