Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
LEMMYKids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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 always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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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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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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