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.
LEMMYAs a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I make a very good steak.
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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 didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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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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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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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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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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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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