My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
LEMMYI 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.
More Lemmy Quotes
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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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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In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
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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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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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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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I don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?
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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 wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.
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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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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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 listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
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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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