It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
LEMMYI don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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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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 like hard, aggressive music.
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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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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 was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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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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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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