Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Till Lindemann

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German musician Till Lindemann.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Till Lindemann

Till Lindemann is a German singer, songwriter and poet. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein and solo project Lindemann. Rammstein have sold over 25 million records worldwide, with five of their albums receiving platinum status, and Lindemann has been listed among the "50 Greatest Metal Frontmen of All Time" by Roadrunner Records. He has appeared in minor roles in films and has also published three books of poetry. He has presented some of his original poems and scripts to galleries.

In the very beginning, we went on tours with Rammstein in really small clubs. We didn't even have a record out. We played in restaurants and pubs in the south of Germany.
I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and learning lyrics with picture book. These are my first experiences with the English language.
I'm not a big hip-hop fan, but I respect all kinds of music and some of them are really cool. — © Till Lindemann
I'm not a big hip-hop fan, but I respect all kinds of music and some of them are really cool.
Rammstein's music demands German lyrics.
We love the American crowds.
Oh, my kids know me, and they know the Rammstein's history. It's hard to shock them. I got punished, in the sense that they're really big Coldplay fans.
I'm polite.
It's just really efficient to work with a person who can do everything in the studio.
We used to be either punks or goths - we hate Nazis!
Nobody speaks German outside of Germany.
We're never gonna see bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath again. It's over.
I like having parties where we bring in the girls, and we have a good DJ playing good music that makes the girls dance.
In German, there are only so many things you can write about.
You know, I grew up in the East part of Germany so we never had English in school, we had to learn Russian.
I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs... it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian.
Transsexuals are amazing. You have all the great stuff in one place.
I would love to make a really cool Spanish song, definitely.
When I listen to the first songs I wrote in Rammstein, I have to smile because it was so silly at time.
I like things to be unpredictable.
For me, it's a big challenge to translate everything in English.
The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a good record!' — © Till Lindemann
The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a good record!'
Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.
Love is like a flower, even the most beautiful kind dies.
When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.
You can't easily break out of this cycle of love. It's always here and there up and down.. pain and joy, this wonderful feeling of being in love, which will come to an end later, is so dominating through your entire life. And you cannot escape it.
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