As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
LEMMYPeople don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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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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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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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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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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