Eddie 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.
LEMMYI’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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 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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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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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