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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More Lemmy Quotes
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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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 always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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The 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.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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