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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More Lemmy Quotes
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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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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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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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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I make a very good steak.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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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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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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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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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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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 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 don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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