Lemmy Quotes

If you didn't do anything that wasn't good for you it would be a very dull life. What are you gonna do? Everything that is pleasant in life is dangerous. Have you noticed that? I'd like to find the bastard that thought that one up.

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?

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.

People who work in a factory, right, or some awful fucking mind-numbing job like that - ‘cause I worked in a factory, I know what it’s like; it’s fucking awful, yeah? Most people have to do that kind of job that they hate every day of their lives. Can you imagine what that must be like? You have to submerge your intellect completely, right, and just, y’know, che cha, y’know, and all that. So, at the weekend, they want to hear something that tears the heart out of ‘em and gives it back better.

So I peeked under the tent-flap and there was Tommy, stark naked with his clothes under his one arm, running like a maniac. Following closely behind was a furious Guide mistress beating him on the head with his own arm!

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

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.

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

The line-up was Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, us, Metal Church and Dangerous Toys. The Metal Church and Dangerous Toys guys were the best company – you never saw Alice (he was generally on his bus watching Japanese splatter movies) or anyone in Judas Priest, but I’d always run into some of the guys from the other bands somewhere. Usually at a strip club. Every city we went to, we’d all go down to the local strip club, and there they’d be.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Since I was about twenty-five, nothing changed, except I got smarter and wiser and things have an effect on you. But I never thought I was any older, really. It was just a very long twenty-five!