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.
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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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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’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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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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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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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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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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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 thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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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 not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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