Lemmy Quotes

Lemmy

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 24, 1945

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 like hard, aggressive music.

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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'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.

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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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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

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I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

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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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Gay people are made and not born.

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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 don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

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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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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can't be safe. Life's not safe. Your work isn't safe. When you leave the house, it isn't safe. The air you breathe isn't going to be safe, not for very long. That's why you have to enjoy the moment.

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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.

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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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As for what other people think of me, I don't care. I don't care and never have.

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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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I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

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You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

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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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