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.
LEMMYThe more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
More Lemmy Quotes
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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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 wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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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 can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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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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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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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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 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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