I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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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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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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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 learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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