I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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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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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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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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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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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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