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.
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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I’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.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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 was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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I 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.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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