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.
LEMMYI was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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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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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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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 was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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 really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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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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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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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I 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.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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