People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life. Lemmy Kilmister More Quotes by Lemmy Kilmister More Quotes From Lemmy Kilmister It will be funny in about 10 years. Lemmy Kilmister rock-n-roll years People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really. Lemmy Kilmister people ideas thinking I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me? Lemmy Kilmister married habit mean I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision. Lemmy Kilmister vision tunnels young It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that they liked. I remember we sent out about six tapes. We heard that we were this one kid's favorite band so we sent a tape that said, "Hey this is Motörhead. It's time to wake up." Lemmy Kilmister hearing-things kids people You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him [Eric Clapton ]; he was in a very, very bad way for a long time, but he came through it. Most people don't come through it because they don't have the money to buy the people to look after them. Lemmy Kilmister trying long people I hate heroin. It killed off a lot of my generation. It killed off a lot of my friends. Now this generation is getting killed off again. I can't believe it. How many dead bodies do we need to have piled up? Lemmy Kilmister this-generation hate believe It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray Vaughan is known by a lot more people than had ever heard of him when he was alive. Lemmy Kilmister guitar player people Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died. Lemmy Kilmister small-hands player boys He [Randy Rhoads] was really a good guy. I never could get over how incredibly little he was. Lemmy Kilmister randy-rhoads guy littles [My favorite decade] probably the '60s, because there were hardly any rules and heroin hadn't shown up, so people hadn't started dying. It was incredibly upbeat, and we almost did change the world. I guess that was the best one . Lemmy Kilmister dying people world It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame. Lemmy Kilmister involved shame seems We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up. Lemmy Kilmister tape wake-up kids The first time The Runaways played in Britain, Joan Jett wore my bullet belt onstage. The Runaways were really the first all-girl band to really strut their stuff and say, "F**k you." "Cherry Bomb" was the best song for a girl band to sing. It was just outrageous at the time. There were American families sitting on the sofa watching television going, "F**k me." It was great fun. Lemmy Kilmister girl song fun Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him. Lemmy Kilmister eric mind I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window. Lemmy Kilmister holiday surprise window ...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England. Lemmy Kilmister england-and-america new-york war People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you. Lemmy Kilmister drug war people We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll. Lemmy Kilmister sgt-pepper writing thinking You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have. Lemmy Kilmister nightlife soul years
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