Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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Gay people are made and not born.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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 know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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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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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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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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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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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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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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