I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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 was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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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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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.
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I make a very good steak.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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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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I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.
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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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I never thought it was an option.
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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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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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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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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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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.
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