I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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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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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 can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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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 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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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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 know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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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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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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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