I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
LEMMYI never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
LEMMYThere’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.
LEMMYI was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
LEMMYI don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
LEMMYGot two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
LEMMYEverything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
LEMMYI’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
LEMMYIt’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.
LEMMYWhen you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
LEMMYI learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
LEMMYI was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
LEMMYI was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
LEMMYI once fell through a hole in the stage.
LEMMYI’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
LEMMYTouring is too much fun to stop.
LEMMYAll my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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