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.
LEMMYI listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
More Lemmy Quotes
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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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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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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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 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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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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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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I like hard, aggressive music.
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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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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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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 don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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