Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
LEMMYIt’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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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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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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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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.
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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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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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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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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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