I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
LEMMYI was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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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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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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Rock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.
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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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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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