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.
LEMMYEveryone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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I never thought it was an option.
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
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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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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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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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