When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
LEMMYI do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I never thought it was an option.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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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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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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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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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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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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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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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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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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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
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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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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 don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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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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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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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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