I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
LEMMYI always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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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I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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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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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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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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