I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
LEMMYI 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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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 don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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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 was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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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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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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I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
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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 listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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