Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
LEMMYI always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
More Lemmy Quotes
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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I make a very good steak.
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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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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 don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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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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