Quotes by Lemmy - Page 2

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.
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Favour
Fixed
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My advice wouldn't be good to anybody. I don't see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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Advice
Applause
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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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Better Place
Hippie
Wonderful
Time World Better
Believed
Time Better World
Era
Wonderful Time
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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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Driven
Walked
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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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Married
Married Couples
Bachelor
Miss
Couples
Happily
Parents
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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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Advice
Alive
Die
Anyone
Try
Stay
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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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Music
Boring
Jazz
Music Me Jazz
Anything Else
Liked
Early
Else
Everything Else
Rock
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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.
Lemmy /
Internet
Might
Warts
Auction
Certainly
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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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Lawyer
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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Bad Guys
Uniforms
Time Best Always
Bad
Beginning
Best Time Bad
Guys
Napoleon
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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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Ideas
Injustice
Plenty
Run
Love War Death
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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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Guitarist
Producer
Piano Player
Record Producer
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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.
Lemmy /
Awful
Jagger
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Park
Tune
Wore
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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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Religion
Communism
Against
Any
Both
Religions
Equally
Replacement
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from 'Cats.' What's it called? 'Memory?' Sends shivers up your spine.
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Andrew
Spine
Cats
Memory
Sends
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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.
Lemmy /
Chords
Guitarist
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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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Albums
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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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Eight
Becomes
Popular
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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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Classical Music
Classical
Widespread
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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.
Lemmy /
Slim
Love People Know
Boy
Oh
Blues
Listened
Sonny
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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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Lifestyle
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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.
Lemmy /
Common
Fit
Hair
Long Hair
Punk
Long Long Hair Hair
Anything Else
Box
Long Hair Always
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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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As Far As
Nobody
Final
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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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Earn
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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.
Lemmy /
Attitude
Liverpool
Saw
Monster
Onstage
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There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.
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Dying
My Time
No Point
Waste
Anyway
Worrying
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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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Liverpool
Stones
Dressed
Town
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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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Alone
Arena
Grew
Always People Way
Alone Always People
Alone People Way
Been
Even
Head
Surrounded
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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. I never thought it was an option.
Lemmy /
Girlfriend
Racism
Option
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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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Religion
Dislike
Grief
Worship
Since
Quite
Cause
First
Discovered
Ever
Intensely
Stone
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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?
Lemmy /
Trouble
Anonymous
Round
Walk
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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.
Lemmy /
Hell
Angels
Flat
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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.
Lemmy /
Farmer
Richard
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I was in the Rockin' Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain. A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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Iron
Iron Curtain
Milk
Curtain
Photos
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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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Buddy
Beat
Eddie
Holly
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Women always left me because I wouldn't commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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Relationship
Women
Commit
Left
Changes
Lose
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Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis - all them people.
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Chuck
Jerry
Time Music People
Berry
Elvis
Richard
Lee
Lewis
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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.
Lemmy /
Memorabilia
Collect
First Place
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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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Becoming
Shock
Consider
Fully
Thinks
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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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Human Relationships
Looking
Seen
Life Way Your
Life Looking Way
Missed
Relationships
Shape
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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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Buying
Sells
Snobbery
Stuff
Good Look People
Cause
Downward
Guess
In Fact
More People
Popular
Right People
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I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. 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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Death
Habit
Infatuation
Passion
Turns
Used
Love Me Keep
Love Death Me
Exists
Surprised
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I can't say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest. 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.
Lemmy /
Needed
Life Good Always
Boy
Doctor
Chest
Crop
Expect
Inserted
Surprised
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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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Air
Breathe
Enjoy
House
Long
News
Safe
Life Work Moment
Why
Everyone
Life Work Long
Leave
Got
Moment
Well
Wants
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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.
Lemmy /
Getting Married
Liberty
Lucky
Married
Responsibility
Support
Three
Get Married
Parents
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