Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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 never thought it was an option.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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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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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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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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