Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes
You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.
Quotes to Explore
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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I adored my father.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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You give the money where you want it.
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Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
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I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.
