Quotes from Lemmy

People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are.

Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.

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

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

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

I wasn't any good at playing tennis.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.

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.