I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
LEMMYI wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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 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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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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 like hard, aggressive music.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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