I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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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.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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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 don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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 admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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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 don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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