In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
LEMMYGot 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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I never thought it was an option.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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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 don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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 don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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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