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.
LEMMYI don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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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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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 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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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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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 don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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 wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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