I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.
LEMMYI don’t only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.
More Lemmy Quotes
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.
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The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
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I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.
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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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I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.
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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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I once fell through a hole in the stage.
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You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.
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As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.
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I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
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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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It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.
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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 always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.
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I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.
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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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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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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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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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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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Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
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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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