Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
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.
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I want every Grammy.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
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If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.
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'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.
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I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.
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When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
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Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
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I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.
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I remember loving that album, ... Frampton took me into the studio and played me that album and I thought it was the greatest party album that I'd heard in a long time, and so I wrote the liner notes and the album became huge.
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I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was one of those involved in recording a Beatles album.
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Yeah exactly, so if anyone's bummed that The Mars Volta record's too simple or too pop, they can buy that album and it'll take them right back to that kind of sound. It's one of my favourite things I've ever worked on. It's pretty much a Mars Volta record, just without Thomas, Ikey, and Marcel. With Volta [Octahedron] was just our acoustic record that turned into our pop record.
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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.
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We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
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i think our desires to put in music that we like and want to do in our albums are stronger than being conscious of the public's eyes or ears. That's why we're learning bit by bit with each new album. Although our music charts rankings are quite low, rankings and money aren't important in music.
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I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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When I was growing up, I would listen to a different album almost every night. I would do the full album experience before I went to bed and that's how I would discover a lot of music. I would kind of go into another world with my headphones on.
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If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
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My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
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I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
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You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.
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Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
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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.
