Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Lemmy - Page 2

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.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

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. I was lucky: I didn't get married, so I didn't have to have that responsibility.

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.

I've never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I'd marry her.

Touring is too much fun to stop.

My advice wouldn't be good to anybody. I don't see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.

I don't really have the voice for love songs, do I?

People don't know how to be outrageous anymore.

All my dreams came true. There's not many people that can say that. I mean, most people have to work in a job they hate all their lives, and I can't imagine that.

I make a very good steak.

Nobody in the world could possibly be as mean as I look, could they?

My hearing is usually O.K.

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

I wasn't any good at playing tennis.

I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.

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.

I don't only collect Nazi stuff; I collect objects from all the Axis countries.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn't let you play with.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.

I am emphatically not a Nazi.

I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.

It's not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It's just that I've gotten used to it.

I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It's crowding me out of my house.

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

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.

I'm not going to die broke, but I'm not rich.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

Everything I hear influences me. I can't tell you all my influences as a musician.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.

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.

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.

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.

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?