I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
LEMMYI never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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I make a very good steak.
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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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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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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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 think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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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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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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