My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
LEMMYWe 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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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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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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Gay people are made and not born.
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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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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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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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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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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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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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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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