Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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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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Gay people are made and not born.
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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 don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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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 don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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