Top 70 Lemmy Quotes

I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.

I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.

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.

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.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

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

Good manners don’t cost nothing.

Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.

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

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.

I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

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

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

I’m not a poker player; I play slot machines.

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

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

I am emphatically not a Nazi.

I listen to everything from Ravel to the Bee Gees.

Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.

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.

Gay people are made and not born.

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

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

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

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

I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.

Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.

My hearing is usually O.K.

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

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.

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

I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

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

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

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.

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

My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.

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

People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.

I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.

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 always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

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

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

As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.

I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.

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 can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?

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 am emphatically not a Nazi.

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

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.

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

Elvis inspired my sideburns, but Little Richard inspired me for vocals.

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 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.

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

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

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.

‘Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.