I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
LEMMYI was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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 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’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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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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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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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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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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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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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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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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