I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
LEMMYI went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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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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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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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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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.
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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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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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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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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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 never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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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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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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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 any good at playing tennis.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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