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Lemmy Kilmister

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Lemmy Kilmister, born Ian Kilmister, was a British musician renowned for his contributions to heavy metal music. He is best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Motörhead. Kilmister's musical career began in the 1960s, and his style was characterized by a fusion of hardcore, punk, and heavy metal. His passing had a profound impact on the global heavy metal music scene.

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“If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.”

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“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?" [Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”

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“Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.”

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“Death is an inevitability, isn't it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don't worry about it. I'm ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good.”

Life Death Dying

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“The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it.”

Religion Atheism

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“You've never seen a politician who's kept his promise. You've never saw a politician who wasn't a liar.....They want you to do what they say because their word is better than that other guy...It's not!...All politicians are assholes.”

Lemmy Kilmister Lemmy

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“Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.”

Has Beens Sex Mankind Hair Safe Late Too Late Clothings Layers Spray Ozone Ozone Layer

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“All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.”

Ifs Men Giving Self Life Is Loses Honor Sells Self Respect Your Honor

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“People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.”

People Thinking Should Ideas Good Ideas People Changing

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“My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'”

Giving Life Is Social Please Giving Up Drinking Bars Juice Social Life Tomatoes

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“Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself”

Looks Helping Asks Can Do

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“Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.”

Use Reading Imagination

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“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.”

People Want Guy Next Doors Stage Planets Ordinary Ordinary Life

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“I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!”

People Ifs World Years Believe Results Europe Twenties Going Away Quarters Ignored

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“It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.”

Seems Involved Shame

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Should Writing Seems Rocks Months Band Albums Rock N Roll Peppers Sgt Pepper

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“I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.”

Done Past Lines Cutting Interviews Outrageous Of Context

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“I think that is just about as dishonest as a person giving a bad interview. I despise people like that; they don't get two tries. It's all just sensation. It is always bullshit.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Persons Two Interviews Sensations Despise Bullshit

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“How many times can a rock star go over the top on drugs? How many times can a rock star be unfaithful to his old lady? It is really fu**ing boring, and that is what they do over and over and over. They just print the same sh*t.”

Stars Rocks Drug Boring Print Rock Star Old Lady Unfaithful Over The Top

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“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?”

Needs Believe I Can Body Hate Generations My Friends I Hate My Generation Heroin This Generation

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“Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.”

Long Has Beens Remember Rocks Musician Long Time Jazz Bunch Rock N Roll Jazz Music Heroin Jazz Musician

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“Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake.”

People Thinking Happens Past Mistake Generations Died Stronger Same Mistakes

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“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.”

People War Loses Drug Prove Prove It War On Drugs

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“Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.”

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“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.”

People Way Trying Looks Long Figures Benefits Long Time Bigger Loser Eric

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“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.”

Window Surprise Holiday Crew Knocking Inns Balconies

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“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."”

People Trying Kind Said Helping Kids Remember Heard Band Six Late Wake Up Hearing Hey Tape Fads Coma Favorite Bands Hearing Things

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“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.”

Kids Wake Up Tape Worth It

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“I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.”

Young Vision Tunnels Tunnel Vision

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“[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 .”

People World Dying My Favorite Decades Changing The World Heroin Upbeat

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“The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.”

Realizing Influence Incredibles Explosions

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“They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.”

Firsts Band Singers

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“They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.”

Writing Firsts Song Band Britain Covered

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“Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.”

Done Used Paper Pages England Dedicated Papers

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“When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.”

Happens Song Died Palaces Buckingham Palace Medley

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“Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.”

Singing Harmony

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“He [Randy Rhoads] was really a good guy. I never could get over how incredibly little he was.”

Littles Guy Get Over Good Guy Randy Randy Rhoads

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“Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.”

Play Hands Boys Player Died Guitar Guitar Player Randy Small Hands Randy Rhoads

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“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.”

People Firsts Wells Known Alive Player Heard Mystery Guitar Get Better Rays Well Known Buddy Guitar Player Hollies

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“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.”

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“If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.”

Ifs Thinking America Chance Grammy

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“It was just a mercy f**k, as it was our 30th anniversary. They gave Grammy to us for a cover of somebody else's song. It would have a lot more meaning if it had been for one of our songs.”

Ifs Song Mercy Grammy

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“We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.”

Albums Quarters Grammy Metallica

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“We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.”

Enough Play Havens India China Russia

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“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?”

Mean Habit Married Mates Bad Habits

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“We never nicked stuff from other bands because that was a no-no because we were all in the same boat. You don't steal from the poor because, let's face it, they're poor. There's no sense in that.”

Faces Stuff Poor Band Stealing Boat

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“...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.”

World Years War America Three Happened New York England War Of The Worlds Germany Three Years World War Ii Berlin England And America

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“Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you”

People Ifs Enough Shows Waiting Minutes Happenings Argument Upset Wrong Bullshit Enough Time Wrongdoing Truth Hurts Bitter Truth Inconvenient Truth

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“In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.”

People Kind Two Mistaken

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“It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.”

World Seems Spiritual Young Becoming Brave Educated New World Brave New World

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About the Author

Born: December 24, 1945
Died: December 28, 2015
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 61

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