I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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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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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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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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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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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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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.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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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 brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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