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.
LEMMYEveryone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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 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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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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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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When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
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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 don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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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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