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.
LEMMYI 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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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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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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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I make a very good steak.
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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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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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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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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