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.
LEMMYRock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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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 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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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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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 miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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 was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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