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.
LEMMYYou 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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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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My hearing is usually O.K.
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I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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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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I make a very good steak.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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I never thought it was an option.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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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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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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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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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