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.
LEMMYI learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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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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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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Rock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.
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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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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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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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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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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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