I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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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 dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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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 want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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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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