In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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