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.
LEMMYMy father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I like hard, aggressive music.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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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’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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 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 make a very good steak.
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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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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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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 can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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