Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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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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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I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.
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I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.
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Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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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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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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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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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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My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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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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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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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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As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.
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I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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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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I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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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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I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.
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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 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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