You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.
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I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.
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In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.
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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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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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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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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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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.
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I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?
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I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
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