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Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.
Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.
We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.
Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early '70s.
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel.
Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.
They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.
He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.
We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
I can't go to school, cause I don't have a gun. I ain't got a gun, cause I ain't got a job. I ain't got a job, cause I can't go to school.
I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.
Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.
Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.
You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.
Do you feel your best when your strung out on your morphine and meth?
All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do ... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.
If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.
We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.
Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.
You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.
They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.
Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.
Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.
If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.
I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected.
They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.
She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.
We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.
When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead.
That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.
If you could use your brain like you use your ass ...
Take a look at my face, I am the future.
It just seemed that we always ended up at the Rainbow, to the point where they finally just said, 'Why don't you guys go up into this loft, where we'll kind of protect people from coming around and sitting on the tables.' And we thought that was a great idea.
I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark.
Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.
I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.
There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.
The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.
Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot.
Welcome To My Nightmare!
I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics ... When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick ... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.
I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone.
Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity ... that's rebellion.
Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.
I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.
My ultimate goal will be my being told in a Penthouse letter that I can frame.
We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.
I just want your body, Sheeba, I don't want your brains.
If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.
The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
Is everybody that depressed? It's a depressing feeling to me. You know: "I lost my baby." I don't care if you lost your baby, I care if you're feeling OK. Don't tell me your problem - tell me what good's been happening to you.
Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.
It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.
I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.
Rock should never be in bed with politics.
I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.
To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.
Pull my trigger, I get bigger, then I'm lots of fun. I'm your gun, I'm your gun, gun, gun.
She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.
There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.
Every single night, it seemed to be the same seven or eight guys: Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club, drinking club, for rock stars that drank - seriously drank.
They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it
I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.
God gives you a life and says, Okay, what are you going to do with it?
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
It used to be said: As GM goes, so goes America. Now it's: As Starbucks goes, so goes America.
The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.
If somebody had told me that you have a choice of
being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers,
there would not have been a choice at all. I would
have said, 'Where's my locker?'
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.
My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.
I think he was trying to produce more of a ... sort of a cheaper image.
We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.
She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.
I ain't got a job cause I ain't got a car, so I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car.
School's-out-for-summer!!
Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.
I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think "Hey you, get off the floor!" was my name.
I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.
I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.
The only real person you need to know is you.
You know it's always funny - the more legend awards you get, the closer you get to the grave, I guess, i am going full strength right now so it's great to get these while you're alive, I'd hate to get them after you're dead.
Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush.
It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put "Elected" out, it was definitely a satire ... "Alice Cooper for President" ... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes.
That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.
Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.
On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.
Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.
Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.
From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.
I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.