I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
LEMMYRock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I never thought it was an option.
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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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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.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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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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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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