I like hard, aggressive music.
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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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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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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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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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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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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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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 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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It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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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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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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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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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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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.
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