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.
LEMMYOh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
More Lemmy Quotes
-
-
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.
LEMMY -
Touring is too much fun to stop.
LEMMY -
I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
LEMMY -
Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
LEMMY -
You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
LEMMY -
I don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
LEMMY -
I like hard, aggressive music.
LEMMY -
My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
LEMMY -
It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
LEMMY -
A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
LEMMY -
It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.
LEMMY -
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.
LEMMY -
The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.
LEMMY -
People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
LEMMY -
I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
LEMMY