Lemmy Kilmister Quotes, Thoughts and images

Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.

A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

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

Born to lose. Live to win.

All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.

That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.

People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.

It will be funny in about 10 years.

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake.

People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.

I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.

People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me?

It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.

Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.

I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.

I hate heroin. It killed off a lot of my generation. It killed off a lot of my friends. Now this generation is getting killed off again. I can't believe it. How many dead bodies do we need to have piled up?

We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll.

He [Randy Rhoads] was really a good guy. I never could get over how incredibly little he was.

I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.

The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

I think that is just about as dishonest as a person giving a bad interview. I despise people like that; they don't get two tries. It's all just sensation. It is always bullshit.