As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
LEMMYMy father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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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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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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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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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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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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