Top 25 Lemmy Kilmister Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Born to lose. Live to win.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

Featured in: Music Quotes, Short Quotes, Winning Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Crazy Quotes

2. “If you think you are too old to rock ’n roll, then you are.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

Featured in: Music Quotes, Funny Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Performance Quotes

3. “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.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

Featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes

4. “All you have 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 don’t have it anymore.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

Featured in: Reputation Quotes, Know Your Worth Quotes

5. “Don’t look to me. Don’t ask for help. Don’t ask for anything that you can do yourself.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

6. “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?”

— Lemmy Kilmister

7. “It will be funny in about 10 years.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

8. “Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

9. “That was a great time, the summer of ’71 – I can’t remember it, but I’ll never forget it!”

— Lemmy Kilmister

10. “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.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

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

— Lemmy Kilmister

12. “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?’”

— Lemmy Kilmister

13. “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!”

— Lemmy Kilmister

14. “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?”

— Lemmy Kilmister

15. “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?”

— Lemmy Kilmister

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.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

17. “Integrity is everything to me. I will not die ashamed. I will live on my deathbed knowing that I gave it my best shot, and everything else is meaningless to me.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

18. “People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don’t think they should, really.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

19. “You haven’t been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

20. “If there is a God he hasn’t been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he’s making a real bollocks of everything.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

21. “We were a blues band, really. Although we played it at a thousand miles an hour, it was recognizable as blues – at least to us it was; probably it wasn’t to anybody else.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

22. “I like girls. That’s the only reason I’m in the music business – I discovered you could get women to take their clothes off if you had a guitar. And they come off a lot faster if you can play it.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

23. “People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

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

— Lemmy Kilmister

25. “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!”

— Lemmy Kilmister