I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
LEMMYI’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
More Lemmy Quotes
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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 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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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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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 was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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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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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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