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.
LEMMYI 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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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 don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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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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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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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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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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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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
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