I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
LEMMYI’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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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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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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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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 think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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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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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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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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