Alice Cooper Quotes

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me. ~ Alice Cooper

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together. ~ Alice Cooper

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band. ~ Alice Cooper

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. ~ Alice Cooper

Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose. ~ Alice Cooper

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. ~ Alice Cooper

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us. ~ Alice Cooper

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion. ~ Alice Cooper

Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch. ~ Alice Cooper

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

Make that money run like honey on your tongue. ~ Alice Cooper

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands. ~ John Varvatos

Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea. ~ Alice Cooper

Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot. ~ Alice Cooper

I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do. ~ Andy Biersack

The only real person you need to know is you. ~ Alice Cooper

She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead. ~ Alice Cooper

AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time ... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it. ~ Rico Love

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. ~ Alice Cooper

If you could use your brain like you use your ass ... ~ Alice Cooper

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell. ~ Alice Cooper

I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark. ~ Alice Cooper

I had a radio show at the local college and I got kicked off the air and banished forever for playing music from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie because (quote-unquote) "They were gay." So, things have changed quite a bit. ~ Anne Boleyn

God gives you a life and says, Okay, what are you going to do with it? ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

No more Mr. Nice Guy. ~ Alice Cooper

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction. ~ Alice Cooper

Long before there was Marilyn Manson, long before there was Alice Cooper, way before Ozzy Osbourne, there was Screamin' Jay Hawkins ~ Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity ... that's rebellion. ~ Alice Cooper

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there. ~ Alice Cooper

Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel. ~ Alice Cooper

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. ~ Alice Cooper

She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper - you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing. ~ John Varvatos

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal? ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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?' ~ Alice Cooper

Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote. ~ Alice Cooper

Take a look at my face, I am the future. ~ Alice Cooper

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming. ~ Alice Cooper

Welcome To My Nightmare! ~ Alice Cooper

My ultimate goal will be my being told in a Penthouse letter that I can frame. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone. ~ Alice Cooper

She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul. ~ Alice Cooper

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. ~ Rob Zombie

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now. ~ Alice Cooper

Do you feel your best when your strung out on your morphine and meth? ~ Alice Cooper

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different. ~ Alice Cooper

I think he was trying to produce more of a ... sort of a cheaper image. ~ Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time. ~ Alice Cooper

We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith. ~ Alice Cooper

The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

School's-out-for-summer!! ~ Alice Cooper

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound. ~ Alice Cooper

It's good to listen to lots of different stuff, just whatever you like. The first two records I ever bought were Alice Cooper, Killer and Jethro Tull, Aqualung. That's two weird records to begin with, but I think they hold up well. ~ James Hetfield

It used to be said: As GM goes, so goes America. Now it's: As Starbucks goes, so goes America. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early '70s. ~ Alice Cooper

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

I noticed that you take your anger out on your guitar," I said finally. "Like, when i ate a bowl of your cereal, you went in your room and started playing like you were in Metallica or something." "Actually, it was Alice Cooper. ~ Alicia Thompson

Rock should never be in bed with politics. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Alice Cooper

One of my favorite "deep thoughts" on the topic occurred when one of my other bands, Loaded, was opening for Alice Cooper a number of years back. After one particularly successful show, we got to talking about Bon Jovi. In the song "Wanted Dead Or Alive," the claim is made that "I've seen a million faces, and I've rocked them all." All? Let's ponder.
I have no doubt that Bon Jovi had played to a million people by the time "Dead or Alive" was released on Slippery When Wet in 1986. But did they rock them all? Couldn't it be that some dudes brought their girlfriends to the show and weren't necessarily into their music? What about some parents? Or maybe some people just didn't get rocked? Hey, it's happened to me. I've gone to gigs properly prepared to get rocked and it just didn't happen. ~ Duff McKagan