Lemmy Kilmister Quotes

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

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.

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

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!

Born to lose. Live to win.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It will be funny in about 10 years.

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.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It was just a mercy f**k, as it was our 30th anniversary. They gave Grammy to us for a cover of somebody else's song. It would have a lot more meaning if it had been for one of our songs.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

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

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

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

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

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'