I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
LEMMYI guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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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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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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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 never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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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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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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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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