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.
LEMMYI was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
More Lemmy Quotes
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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 never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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 was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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 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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