As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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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 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 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 was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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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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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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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 never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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