67 Lemmy Kilmister Quotes

Lemmy Kilmister quotes

1. 'If this band moved in next door to you, your lawn would die.'

2. 'We are Motorhead... and we're gonna kick your ass!'

3. 'We are Motorhead, and we play rock 'n' roll.' - Lemmy's opening words at Motorhead concerts.

4. 'I don't need Channel 4 to tell me how rock and roll I am; I'm in fucking Motorhead!' - After taking Channel 4's 'How Rock And Roll Are You?' test and barely scoring 2/3 of the marks.

5. 'The pleasure is to play, it makes no difference what you say.' - From 'Ace of Spades'.

6. 'I don't share your greed. The only card I need is the Ace of Spades'- From 'Ace of Spades'

7. 'The king of kings, there is only one.' - From 'The King Of Kings'.

8. 'The only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud.' - From 'Overkill'.

9. 'We shoot to kill, and you know we always will.' - From 'Bomber'.

10. 'I love American girls.' - From 'One Night Stand'.

11. 'We are killers, we kill you till you die.' - From 'Killers'.

12. 'Bring it up, bring it down till you hit the ground, Get a rude attitude, turn the world around, Shall we see, shall we disagree, Sing it all In The Name of Tragedy.' - From 'In The Name of Tragedy'.

13. 'Save yourself and kill the world' - From 'Kill the world'

14. 'I'm iron & steel, I'm bad to the bone, You come looking for trouble, honey don't you come alone' - From 'You better run'

15. 'If loving you's a crime, So go on and find me guilty, Just one more fucking time' - From 'One more fucking time'

16. 'I'm a loser, that's what they said, Now I got their women in my bed' - From 'Loser'

17. 'And if we gotta fight all night, That's alright. I got time.' - From 'Don't lie to me'

18. 'But you know I'm a real good lover, Can't judge a book by the cover' - From 'Shine'

19. 'Listen up here, I'll make it quite clear, I'm gonna put some boogie in your ear' - From 'Born to raise hell'

20. 'Rich men say that happiness is a million dollar bills, so how come half of them OD on sleeping pills?' - From 'No Voices in the Sky'

21. 'Eye for eye. Tooth for tooth. You all know what I mean. What's the point in a cry for help if no one hears the scream?' - from 'No Voices in the Sky'

22. 'Let right and wrong alone decide' - from 'God Was Never on Your Side'

23. 'No-one knows, friends or foes, if Valhalla lies beyond the grave' - from 'Deaf Forever'

24. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it? - Interview in the English newspaper The Independent, 15 October 2005.

25. 'For earth to heal, we must die. No one deserves it more.'

26. 'Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.'

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

28. 'One thing I am very glad of is that I went through the sixties. People who didn't really don't know what they missed. We pushed a certain consciousness, a way of life and it was exciting - no AIDS, people weren't dying so much from drug abuse and it was truly a time of freedom and change.'

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

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

31. 'Born to lose, Live to win.'

32. 'Yeah. It was all uphill. And he still couldn't play bass when he died, I mean, fucking hell. Well, and everybody knows that, just listen to the Sex Pistols record that he was on, you know, you can tell it's Steve standing in for him. In fact I'm not sure if Sid was ever on the record, I think it was Steve who played bass.' -On a time when Sid Vicious asked Lemmy to teach him to play the bass.

33. 'To have a relationship is fatal to the relationship.'

34. 'This one is for Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone, wherever they may be.' - Lemmy's words before Motorhead play the song 'R.A.M.O.N.E.S.'.

35. 'I love women, I think they should be naked backstage all the time. I love looking at 'em'

36. 'Born to Lose, Out to Lunch' - Written on the front of Lemmy's bass.

37. 'All the technique in the world don't mean shit if it don't sound right.'

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that they liked. I remember we sent out about six tapes. We heard that we were this one kid's favorite band so we sent a tape that said, "Hey this is Motörhead. It's time to wake up."

4. 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?

5. Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

6. If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.

7. I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

14. 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.

15. 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?

16. 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.

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

18. When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.

19. We never nicked stuff from other bands because that was a no-no because we were all in the same boat. You don't steal from the poor because, let's face it, they're poor. There's no sense in that.

20. They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

21. There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?

22. Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.

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

24. The first time The Runaways played in Britain, Joan Jett wore my bullet belt onstage. The Runaways were really the first all-girl band to really strut their stuff and say, "F**k you." "Cherry Bomb" was the best song for a girl band to sing. It was just outrageous at the time. There were American families sitting on the sofa watching television going, "F**k me." It was great fun.

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

26. 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.

27. [My favorite decade] probably the '60s, because there were hardly any rules and heroin hadn't shown up, so people hadn't started dying. It was incredibly upbeat, and we almost did change the world. I guess that was the best one .

28. 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?'

29. Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.

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