Lemmy Quotes

Lemmy

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 24, 1945

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

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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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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. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

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I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It's crowding me out of my house.

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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

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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 wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

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'Bomber' was the first song I wrote about war.

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Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

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I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

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I'm not going to die broke, but I'm not rich.

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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

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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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I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.

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It's not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It's just that I've gotten used to it.

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Like most housewives, I don't cook unless I have company.

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I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

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