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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More Lemmy Quotes
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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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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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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I never thought it was an option.
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The 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.
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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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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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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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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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I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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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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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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