As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
LEMMYAs a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
LEMMYIt’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.
LEMMYI wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
LEMMYI 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.
LEMMYPeople look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
LEMMYI make a very good steak.
LEMMYIt’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
LEMMYIt’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
LEMMYI’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
LEMMYRock 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.
LEMMYI went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
LEMMYFrom the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
LEMMYI’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
LEMMYI always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
LEMMYYou can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
LEMMYI 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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