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.
LEMMYAs a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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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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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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Eddie 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.
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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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