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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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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From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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I never thought it was an option.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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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 thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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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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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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