I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
LEMMYHuman nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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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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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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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.
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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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When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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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 am emphatically not a Nazi.
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I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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