A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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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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 always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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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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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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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 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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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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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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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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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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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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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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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