Motorhead Quotes

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• I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary. In England, they teach you words. Over here, they don't seem to do that --…
• Like the punks, we just swept all that tedious '70s Rick Wakeman, artsy-fartsy, yellow bell-bottoms, caftans-and-sandals shit aside.
• If you hadn't seen what we looked like, you would have thought we were a punk band. I remember going down to the [London club]…
• All people seem to know is "Ace of Spades." It's backfired at me ever since 'cause the ace of spades is a bad-luck sign --…
• What people really liked was our attitude -- our fuck-you-ness -- and our breakneck speed.
• Any lineup of Mot�rhead could play anything. You can witness it on the covers we've done: We even got a Grammy for one [Metallica's "Whiplash"].…
• We didn't get to go to the real Grammys 'cause we're distasteful: Us and the Mexican jazz bands all had to line up and get…
• They came down on my 50th birthday to the Whisky and played 45 minutes of old Mot�rhead songs! I always thought Metallica were good from…
• Because it's my life. I can't imagine doing anything else now. Intellectually I know there was a time in my life when I wasn't in…
• It's a pretty bad deal you know for musicians really. The musician's union is no fucking good at all, you know?
• Yeah, you obviously get robbed when you're beginning because you don't take advice cause you're an arrogant little shit, you know. And you know better…
• I was going to try writing but it was always just songs. It never quite worked, but I have got a book out.
• We live on borrowed time, hope turned to dust, Nothing is forgiven we fight for every crust. The way we are is not the way…
• Don't believe in miracles and I won't even try, I know the law I know how to die.
• Telling lies just makes it worse, another loved one, blind and cursed, Don't speak the truth, only lies, all we need is a reason why.…
• Die or live, shoot to kill, the old routine you know so well. Gun law rules that's what I said, another dreamer woke up dead.

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