I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
LEMMYI’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
More Lemmy Quotes
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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I never thought it was an option.
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Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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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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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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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 do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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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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