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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More Lemmy Quotes
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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 always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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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 wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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 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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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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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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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 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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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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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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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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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 really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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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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