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.
LEMMYEddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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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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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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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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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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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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