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.
LEMMYAs for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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 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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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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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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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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.
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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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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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