Lemmy Quotes

Lemmy

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 24, 1945

We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell's Angels in this flat. They were always around.

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I don't really have the voice for love songs, do I?

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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.

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You can't win fame; you have to earn it. If you're given fame without working for it, then you're not going to be ready for it.

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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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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 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 was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

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Touring is too much fun to stop.

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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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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

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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. I was lucky: I didn't get married, so I didn't have to have that responsibility.

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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 don't only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.

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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 don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.

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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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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.

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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

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My hearing is usually O.K.

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