I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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More Lemmy Quotes
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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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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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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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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 don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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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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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I make a very good steak.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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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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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 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 was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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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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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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