Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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 like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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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 don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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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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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’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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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