Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.
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But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
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The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.
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I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
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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.
