In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
LEMMYI 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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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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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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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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 like hard, aggressive music.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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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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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 make a very good steak.
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