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.
LEMMYI don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
More Lemmy Quotes
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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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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 don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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 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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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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