The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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More Lemmy Quotes
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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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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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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It’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.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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I never thought it was an option.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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I make a very good steak.
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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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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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