Quotes from Lemmy Kilmister

If you're going to be a fucking rock star go be one. People don't want to see the guy next door on stage; they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.

This entire generation seems to have become pussies, you know? Nobody seems to enjoy themselves much anymore.They are all knocking each other down for enjoying themselves.

Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.

My ethic is: 'Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.' You can be as careful as you want, but you're going to die anyway, so why not have fun?

what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

Motörhead is nothing if not democratic, but I don't think it's fair to be waving your dick around when people are minding their own business and might not want to see it.

Integrity is everything to me. I will not die ashamed. I will live on my deathbed knowing that I gave it my best shot, and everything else is meaningless to me.

I like girls. That's the only reason I'm in the music business – I discovered you could get women to take their clothes off if you had a guitar. And they come off a lot faster if you can play it.

I made more money out of writing those four songs for Ozzy than I made out of fifteen years of Motörhead – ludicrous, isn't it!

If there is a God he hasn't been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he's making a real bollocks of everything.

We are Motörhead. And we play rock and roll.

We were a blues band, really. Although we played it at a thousand miles an hour, it was recognizable as blues – at least to us it was; probably it wasn't to anybody else.

Chicks used to steal food out of the fridge from their parents to feed us and shit – kind of like bringing a meal to the convicted prisoner on the run. They liked the drama of it, and we liked the food.

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

The only time I've seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep.

I left the Rocking Vicars, thinking I was going to be a star in my own right immediately. Everything was going to be wonderful and huge women would get a hold of me and do things to me with raw carrots – you know, shit like that. Of course, it didn't happen quite that way.

you just have to keep going and everything will sort itself out.

You've never seen a politician who's kept his promise. You've never saw a politician who wasn't a liar.....They want you to do what they say because their word is better than that other guy...It's not!...All politicians are assholes.

If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.

I remember he was asking me for advice and I was giving it to him. He's always done the exact opposite of what I've said, which I think is fundamentally sound.

You can't have everything -- where would you put it?

If you think you're too old for rock 'n' roll, then you are.

Po našem p?sobení byly dv? míle pob?eží k nepoznání. Ale byla to jen nevinná hra, d?ti p?eci vyvád?jí všechno možné a koneckonc? pro? taky ne? D?ti sa takhle prost? baví, vytá?ejí dosp?lé a dávají jim zabrat; co by jiného m?ly d?lat?

The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered.