We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
LEMMYThe 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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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 was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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Gay people are made and not born.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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I never thought it was an option.
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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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