In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
LEMMYI saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
More Lemmy Quotes
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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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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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 don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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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 don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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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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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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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