Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician GG Allin.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Kevin Michael "GG" Allin was an American punk rock musician who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. Allin was best known for his controversial live performances, which often featured transgressive acts, including self-mutilation, defecating on stage, and assaulting audience members, for which he was arrested and imprisoned on multiple occasions. AllMusic called him "the most spectacular degenerate in rock n' roll history", while G4TV's That's Tough labelled him the "toughest rock star in the world".
My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.
Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.
I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.
I don't think there will ever be a GG box set.
I am in control at all times.
I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite.
I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.
I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.
I'd like to see anyone do what I do for one week.
No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.
I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.
That audience is there for me.
Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.
My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.
I hate everybody.
I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.
Death is a very important part of life.
I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.
I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.
I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.
Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.
When you reach your peak it's time to die.
It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.
Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.
Every show could be the last one.
There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.
I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.
I think what I do is positive, in its own way.
My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.
If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.
My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not
Your soul should be as strong as possible when it leaves here for whatever comes next.
With GG, you don't get what you expect. You get what you deserve.