It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
LEMMYI was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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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 don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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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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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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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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 am emphatically not a Nazi.
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