Lemmy Quotes

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had nowhere to go, so we went to shows.

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

I went through a rebellious phase, and was super into doing crazy hair things. I did only wear black for my junior year of high school. I was one of those kids.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.