Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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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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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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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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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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Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
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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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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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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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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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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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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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