Lemmy Kilmister Quotes (15 Quotes)

My earliest memory is shouting at what and for what reason, I don't know. Probably a tantrum or I may have been rehearsing. I was always an early starter.

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

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.

Do you know that there are still clubs in England and America where Jews aren't allowed This is a country of denial.

I suppose I should have my say about the terrorist attacks. I don't suppose it'll be a popular view, but they need to be put into some sort of perspective. They were horrible tragedy, but also 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. But most Americans don't think about that. They think everything starts and finishes with America. It is the first time this has ever happened to America, so you would expect them to overreact a bit.

Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.

Fk this Don't speak ill of the dead shit People don't become better when they are dead you just talk about them as if they are. But it's not true People are still aholes, they're just dead aholes.

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 fing dumb to me.

My biological dad will always be an ahole - he left a young girl on her own to bring up a child and she had her mother living with us as well.

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.

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

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

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.