We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell’s Angels in this flat. They were always around.
LEMMYGot two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.
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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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I am emphatically not a Nazi.
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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 like hard, aggressive music.
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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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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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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 went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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