Latest Lemmy Kilmister Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Band, Stuff, Faces

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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?

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Mean, Married, Habit

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Albums, Metallica, Quarters

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Russia, Play, India

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Thinking, America, Chance

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Song, Mercy, Grammy

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray Vaughan is known by a lot more people than had ever heard of him when he was alive.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Player, Guitar, People

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Girl, Song, Fun

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Boys, Player, Small Hands

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Singing, Harmony

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Guy, Littles, Randy Rhoads

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Song, Palaces, Medley

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Done, Paper, Pages

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Band, Singers, Firsts

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Song, Writing, Band

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Realizing, Influence, Incredibles

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Tunnels, Vision, Young

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• [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 .

  Lemmy Kilmister

  People, Dying, World

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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."

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Kids, Hearing Things, People

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Kids, Tape, Wake Up

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Holiday, Surprise, Window

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Mind, Eric

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him [Eric Clapton ]; he was in a very, very bad way for a long time, but he came through it. Most people don't come through it because they don't have the money to buy the people to look after them.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Long, People, Trying

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

• 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.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  War, People, Drug

  Source: www.goldminemag.com