In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
LEMMYIn your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
LEMMYThe thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
LEMMYI’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
LEMMYWhen you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
LEMMYPeople look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
LEMMYI’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
LEMMYRock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
LEMMYThere’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.
LEMMYI always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
LEMMYHuman nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
LEMMYI like hard, aggressive music.
LEMMYOh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
LEMMYThe 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.
LEMMYI wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
LEMMYPeople don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
LEMMYI was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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