I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
LEMMYI was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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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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I 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.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.
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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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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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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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All my dreams came true. There’s not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can’t imagine that.
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I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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