Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
LEMMYEverything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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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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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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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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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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