I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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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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 don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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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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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
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When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
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I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.
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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’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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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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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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