As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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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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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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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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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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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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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.
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