I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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More Lemmy Quotes
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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 like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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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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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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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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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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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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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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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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 always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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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