I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
LEMMYEddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
More Lemmy Quotes
-
-
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.
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
LEMMY -
I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
LEMMY -
Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
LEMMY -
Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
LEMMY -
I am emphatically not a Nazi.
LEMMY -
Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
LEMMY -
I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
LEMMY -
The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
LEMMY -
I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
LEMMY -
Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
LEMMY -
Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
LEMMY