I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
LEMMYMy persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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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 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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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 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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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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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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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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