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.
Lemmy KilmisterWe 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.
Lemmy KilmisterWhen 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.
Lemmy KilmisterIf I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.
Lemmy KilmisterEvery 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.
Lemmy KilmisterApparently 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
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