Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
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.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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Jerry Cantrell told me this: 'You've gotta live life before you can write songs about it.' ...We've been on the road for a year and a half, two years straight. We gotta live normal life and experience normal life for a little while. So, that's what we've been doing for the last eight months.
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I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful.
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
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Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.
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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.
