It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
LEMMYI always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.
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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?
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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 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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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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I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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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I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
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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.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
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