Lemmy Quotes

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

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

You can’t keep guys faithful. If people want to get married and then run around, I think that’s dishonest. If you’re going to get married, get fucking married and that’s it. I never saw a chick that could stop me looking at all the others, so I didn’t.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal. In your forties, you just pray it doesn’t hurt too much, and by the time you reach my age, you become convinced that, well, it could be just around the corner.

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.

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

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!

As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?

...the Beatles were hard men too. Brian Epstein cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies. They were from Liverpool, which is like Hamburg or Norfolk, Virginia — a hard, sea-farin' town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time who would beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them. Ringo's from the Dingle, which is like the f***ing Bronx. The Rolling Stones were the mummy's boys — they were all college students from the outskirts of London. They went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves some sort of aura of disrespectability. I did like the Stones, but they were never anywhere near the Beatles — not for humour, not for originality, not for songs, not for presentation. All they had was Mick Jagger dancing about. Fair enough, the Stones made great records, but they were always s**t on stage, whereas the Beatles were the gear.

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.

Další věc, kterou lidé nechápou, je moje sbírka nacistických suvenýru, jež se začala dost rozrůstat, poté co jsem se přestěhoval do Státu.
Předměty z druhé světové války mezi lidmi kolovaly, co si pamatuju. Koneckonců jsem se narodil v roce, kdy válka skončila, a lidé si tehdy domu nosili nejrůznější věci jako suvenýry. Když jsem přijel do Ameriky, měl jsem jednu dýku a dvě medaile, možná nějakou vlajku a železný kříž, to bylo všechno.
Jako s každým koníčkem, čím více se do něho člověk zabere, tím zajímavějším se stává.
Takže teď mám obrovskou sbírku předmětu z doby hitlerovského Německa – dýky, medaile, vlajky, všechno možné. Tohle všechno připomíná něco, co se skutečně stalo, je to zkrátka historie (z větší části, neboť nacismus stále existuje, byť jen okrajově).
Nechápu lidi, kteří si myslí, že pokud budou něco ignorovat, tak to zmizí. To se teda pletou, jakmile něco ignorujete, akorát to nabývá na síle.
Evropa ignorovala Hitlera dvacet let. V roce 1936 jsme ho mohli porazit: francouzská armáda ho mohla vyhnat z Porýní a byl by vyřízený. Vlastní lidé by ho svrhli. Ale Francouzi utekli, jako vždy a nechali ho tam napochodovat.
Výsledkem bylo vyvraždění čtvrtiny světa!
Navíc si vezměte, že Hitler byl nekuřák, abstinent a vegetarián, nosil oblek a měl krátké vlasy. V kterékoliv restauraci v Americe by ho byli obsloužili, na rozdíl od Jesseho Owense, hrdiny olympiády z roku 1936.

In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.

Born to lose. Live to win.

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

Po našem působení byly dvě míle pobřeží k nepoznání. Ale byla to jen nevinná hra, děti přeci vyvádějí všechno možné a koneckonců proč taky ne? Děti sa takhle prostě baví, vytáčejí dospělé a dávají jim zabrat; co by jiného měly dělat?