I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
LEMMYI was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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