My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
LEMMYI’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.
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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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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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.
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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 like hard, aggressive music.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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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I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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