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.
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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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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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 wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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I make a very good steak.
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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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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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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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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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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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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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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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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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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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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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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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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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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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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