I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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 don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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I 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.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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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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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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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.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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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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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’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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When 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.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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