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.
LEMMYI wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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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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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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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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I never thought it was an option.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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