You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
LEMMYThere’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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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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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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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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 hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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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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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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