Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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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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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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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 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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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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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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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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 never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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I never thought it was an option.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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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 wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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