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.
LEMMYI 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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 was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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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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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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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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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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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