I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
LEMMYI always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
More Lemmy Quotes
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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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 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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Gay people are made and not born.
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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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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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