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.
LEMMYI went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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 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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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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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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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.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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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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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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