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.
LEMMYI was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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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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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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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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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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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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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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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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’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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