Lemmy Quotes

Just 'cause something's popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

Lemmy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 24, 1945 - December 28, 2015

Topics

GoodPeopleDoingYouLookDown

As a director, you're incredibly proud when an individual steps up to the podium and is acknowledged for their work. But to have an entire company acknowledged, there is just no higher honor ever paid for that company - or for the director, for that matter.

Joe Mantello

WorkProudHonorYouMatterCompany

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Joan Didion

WorkBusinessDailyDayMeWriting

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

Jens Lekman

HumorProblemSense Of HumorBand

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

Andrew Gross

LifeSadEyesPastChanceSuicide

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Jeffrey Sachs

TechnologyIdeasDeepGlobalization

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

Skitch Henderson

WellArtistsDifferentCourseLots

I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.

Roger Ailes

PeopleFindRiseWillHardAlways

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

Lloyd Alexander

BookImpossibleShapeWellTaking

The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.

Jose Manuel Barroso

ValuesNewResponsibleHumanNeed

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph de Maistre

LoveJusticePainPunishmentMuch

The music industry is changing. You only hear a sprinkling of big names, but there are a lot of really wonderful young musicians with great voices and lyrical content who have refined their sound. They're up in here, so don't think they're not. There's this wealth of talent below the surface that's ready to explode.

Dianne Reeves

MusicGreatTalentThinkMusicians

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

Draymond Green

MePotentialYouAnythingMeans

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