Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
LEMMYI don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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 learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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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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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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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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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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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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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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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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.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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