I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
LEMMYIn 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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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 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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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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.
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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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 don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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Rock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.
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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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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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