I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
LEMMYYou 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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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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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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My hearing is usually O.K.
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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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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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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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