Lemmy Kilmister Quotes

We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It will be funny in about 10 years.

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.

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

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?'

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

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

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

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.

Born to lose. Live to win.

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

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

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