People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
LEMMYI never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
More Lemmy Quotes
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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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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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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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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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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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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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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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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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