Lemmy Quotes

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.

When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.

Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.

So many people I know are like, 'Nobody listens to Mumford and Sons anymore.' But you know what? I love Mumford and Sons. And I will listen to those albums, and I love 'em.

Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday.

Though rock is not the force that it once was in America, it still has a loyal fan base that always seems to continue regardless of what popular culture deems as the 'cool thing.'

In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.

Most youngsters are so well-connected with the rock music circle that they will know instantly if I attempt to imitate any rock star.

People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop culture from time to time.

We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are loving discovering us, and I'm happy to be that band.

I love the fact that young people are into rock 'n' roll music.

I have lots of memories of Zeppelin. And I know the joy it gives fans when I tell them stories. I see their faces light up.

When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads. They thought all the Raspberries were was players of high-energy rock songs.

I think people like catchy and new types of music.

There's everybody in the world who is always trying, time and time again, to proclaim the death of rock, or hard rock and heavy metal. Not if I have anything to do with it, not if we have anything to do with it.

Hank Junior fans are Skynyrd fans.

R&B was really prominent in the '90s, and we can all admit that it kind of fell off. But my generation is more in touch with our emotions - we're not afraid to show them. We're bringing that decade back.