Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Lemmy
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Lemmy.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.
As for what other people think of me, I don't care. I don't care and never have.
I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There's plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.
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. When you leave the house, it isn't safe. The air you breathe isn't going to be safe, not for very long. That's why you have to enjoy the moment.
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.
I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?
Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.
I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.
It just seems like we get more popular every eight years or so. For some reason, it becomes cool to like Motorhead again.
Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from 'Cats.' What's it called? 'Memory?' Sends shivers up your spine.
The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.
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.
I can't say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest. 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.
In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism. I never thought it was an option.
I don't eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that's it.
I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.
I once fell through a hole in the stage.
Like most housewives, I don't cook unless I have company.
I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.
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.
Gay people are made and not born.
My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.
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.
I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. 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.
I hate golf! I still can't believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.
Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.
Rock n' roll's had a good time out of me - and I've had a very good time out of rock n' roll.
Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis - all them people.
'Bomber' was the first song I wrote about war.
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.
Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
I was in the Rockin' Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain. A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn't the driven sort.
I like hard, aggressive music.
You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.
In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.
We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell's Angels in this flat. They were always around.
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.
I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.
I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.
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. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
It's very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I've seen along the way, I don't think I've missed much.
Good manners don't cost nothing.
Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
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.
I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.
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