White Line Fever Quotes

“...the Beatles were hard men too. Brian Epstein cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies. They were from Liverpool, which is like Hamburg or Norfolk, Virginia--a hard, sea-farin' town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time who would beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them. Ringo's from the Dingle, which is like the f***ing Bronx. The Rolling Stones were the mummy's boys--they were all college students from the outskirts of London. They went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves some sort of aura of disrespectability. I did like the Stones, but they were never anywhere near the Beatles--not for humour, not for originality, not for songs, not for presentation. All they had was Mick Jagger dancing about. Fair enough, the Stones made great records, but they were always s**t on stage, whereas the Beatles were the gear.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“Motörhead is nothing if not democratic, but I don't think it's fair to be waving your dick around when people are minding their own business and might not want to see it.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“...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.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“I made more money out of writing those four songs for Ozzy than I made out of fifteen years of Motörhead – ludicrous, isn’t it!”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“you just have to keep going and everything will sort itself out.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“Howard’s eating habits, incidentally, leave quite a bit to be desired – he eats all these terrible vegetarian things, fruit and nuts. That shit’s not healthy! Human beings are carnivores – just look at our teeth! Our digestive systems are not made to handle vegetarian food. It makes you fart all the time, and you get intestinal flora. Vegetarianism is unrealistic – that’s why cows have four stomachs and we have one. Think about it. (Hi, Howard!) And don’t forget – Hitler was a vegetarian!”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography

“Chicks used to steal food out of the fridge from their parents to feed us and shit – kind of like bringing a meal to the convicted prisoner on the run. They liked the drama of it, and we liked the food.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography

“People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“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, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“I left the Rocking Vicars, thinking I was going to be a star in my own right immediately. Everything was going to be wonderful and huge women would get a hold of me and do things to me with raw carrots – you know, shit like that. Of course, it didn’t happen quite that way.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography

“If you think you’re too old for rock ’n’ roll, then you are.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography

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― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography

“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, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography

“The line-up was Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, us, Metal Church and Dangerous Toys. The Metal Church and Dangerous Toys guys were the best company – you never saw Alice (he was generally on his bus watching Japanese splatter movies) or anyone in Judas Priest, but I’d always run into some of the guys from the other bands somewhere. Usually at a strip club. Every city we went to, we’d all go down to the local strip club, and there they’d be. Nowadays,”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“I remember he was asking me for advice and I was giving it to him. He’s always done the exact opposite of what I’ve said, which I think is fundamentally sound.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“Since I was about twenty-five, nothing changed, except I got smarter and wiser and things have an effect on you. But I never thought I was any older, really. It was just a very long twenty-five!”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography

“Další věc, kterou lidé nechápou, je moje sbírka nacistických suvenýru, jež se začala dost rozrůstat, poté co jsem se přestěhoval do Státu.
Předměty z druhé světové války mezi lidmi kolovaly, co si pamatuju. Koneckonců jsem se narodil v roce, kdy válka skončila, a lidé si tehdy domu nosili nejrůznější věci jako suvenýry. Když jsem přijel do Ameriky, měl jsem jednu dýku a dvě medaile, možná nějakou vlajku a železný kříž, to bylo všechno.
Jako s každým koníčkem, čím více se do něho člověk zabere, tím zajímavějším se stává.
Takže teď mám obrovskou sbírku předmětu z doby hitlerovského Německa – dýky, medaile, vlajky, všechno možné. Tohle všechno připomíná něco, co se skutečně stalo, je to zkrátka historie (z větší části, neboť nacismus stále existuje, byť jen okrajově).
Nechápu lidi, kteří si myslí, že pokud budou něco ignorovat, tak to zmizí. To se teda pletou, jakmile něco ignorujete, akorát to nabývá na síle.
Evropa ignorovala Hitlera dvacet let. V roce 1936 jsme ho mohli porazit: francouzská armáda ho mohla vyhnat z Porýní a byl by vyřízený. Vlastní lidé by ho svrhli. Ale Francouzi utekli, jako vždy a nechali ho tam napochodovat.
Výsledkem bylo vyvraždění čtvrtiny světa!
Navíc si vezměte, že Hitler byl nekuřák, abstinent a vegetarián, nosil oblek a měl krátké vlasy. V kterékoliv restauraci v Americe by ho byli obsloužili, na rozdíl od Jesseho Owense, hrdiny olympiády z roku 1936.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“Po našem působení byly dvě míle pobřeží k nepoznání. Ale byla to jen nevinná hra, děti přeci vyvádějí všechno možné a koneckonců proč taky ne? Děti sa takhle prostě baví, vytáčejí dospělé a dávají jim zabrat; co by jiného měly dělat?”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography