I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
LEMMYI don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
More Lemmy Quotes
-
-
People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
LEMMY -
I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
LEMMY -
Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
LEMMY -
I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
LEMMY -
I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
LEMMY -
You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
LEMMY -
I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
LEMMY -
I am emphatically not a Nazi.
LEMMY -
In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
LEMMY -
My hearing is usually O.K.
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
Good manners don’t cost nothing.
LEMMY -
I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
LEMMY -
Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
LEMMY -
We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
LEMMY -
It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
LEMMY