Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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 don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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Gay people are made and not born.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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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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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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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.
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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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I never thought it was an option.
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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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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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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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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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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 really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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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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