The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
LEMMYJust ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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 know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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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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Gay people are made and not born.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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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I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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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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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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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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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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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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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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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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