Top 165 Quotes & Sayings by Alice Cooper - Page 2

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.

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.

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.'

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.

School's-out-for-summer!!

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

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.

Every single night, there 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.

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

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

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

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.

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.

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?'

Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.

It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

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

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

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.

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

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

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

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

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

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

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.

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

The sicker our fans get, the sicker we'll get

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

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

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

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.

She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.

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.

Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had already died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.

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

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

While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

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

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.

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 eighteen, and I don't know what I want.

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

Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy.

Make that money run like honey on your tongue.

Rock should never be in bed with politics.

Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

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, you know, sitting on the tables. And we thought that was a great idea.

He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.