I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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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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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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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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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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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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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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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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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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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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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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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