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.
LEMMYI saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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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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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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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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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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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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.
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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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I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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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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