Alice Cooper Quotes - Page 2

School's-out-for-summer!!

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.

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I always tell people, 'Everything you’ve heard about Alice Cooper , you can believe maybe 40 percent of it. Everything you’ve ever heard about Keith Moon is true - and you’ve only heard 10 percent of it.'

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easygoing sound and strangle the life out of it.

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

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

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

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

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 came into this life, looked all around. I saw just what I liked and took what I found.

If I spray it on the seat, lady gonna tie a big knot in the meat.

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

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

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.