I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
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 like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
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My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.
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It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
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I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.
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I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.
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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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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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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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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.
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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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People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
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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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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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