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.
LEMMYI like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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’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 don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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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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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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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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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 don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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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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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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