I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
LEMMYIn your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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 always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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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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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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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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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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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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