The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
LEMMYI don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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 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 wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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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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.
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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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You 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.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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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 once fell through a hole in the stage.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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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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