Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
LEMMYWhen you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
More Lemmy Quotes
-
-
The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
LEMMY -
Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
LEMMY -
I am emphatically not a Nazi.
LEMMY -
A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
LEMMY -
I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
LEMMY -
Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
LEMMY -
I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
LEMMY -
I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
LEMMY -
As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
LEMMY -
I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
LEMMY -
You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
LEMMY -
I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
LEMMY -
I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
LEMMY