I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
LEMMYFalling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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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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Rock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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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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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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I make a very good steak.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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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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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 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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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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 saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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