Alice Cooper famous quotes

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
-- Alice Cooper

#Morning #School #Holiday

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

#Christian #Drinking #Rooms

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

#Stars #Rocks #Order

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

#Mistake #Golf #Player

What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.
-- Alice Cooper

#Golf #Play #Scotland

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
-- Alice Cooper

#Powerful #Real #Believe

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, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.
-- Alice Cooper

#Thinking #Listening #Next Steps

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

#Play #Silence #Audience

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.
-- Alice Cooper

#Judging #Praise #Something New

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

#Sex #Rocks #Drug

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

#Sex #Moving #America

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

#Dream #Song #Tape

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

#Fake People #Makeup #Names

Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls.
-- Alice Cooper

#Baby #Hate #Mean

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

#Hippie #And Love #Blonde

When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.
-- Alice Cooper

#Mean #Together #Growing

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

#Fun #Clouds #Opening Up

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

#Cutting #Thinking #Cnn

If you blink your eyes or go get a Coke, you've missed 10 things.
-- Alice Cooper

#Eye #Coke #Blink

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

#Stars #Rocks #Choices

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

#People #Lists #Vote

I just want your body, Sheeba, I don't want your brains.
-- Alice Cooper

#Brain #Body #Want

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

#Fun #Brain #Norm

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

#Thinking #Trying #Produce

If zipper catches skin, I'll know I had it out when I should a kept it in.
-- Alice Cooper

#Zippers #Advice #Skins

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

#Vote #Enough

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

#Stars #Reading #Sleep

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.
-- Alice Cooper

#Fun #Rocks #Boring

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

#Men #Self #Realizing

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

#Mean #Nervous #Mets

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey stoopid.
-- Alice Cooper

#Friendship #Hey

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

#Mean #Cutting #Reality

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.
-- Alice Cooper

#Song #Writing #Thinking

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

#Nurse #Catch Me

Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.
-- Alice Cooper

#Thinking #Insanity #Welcome

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

#Insanity #Trying #Balls

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

#Insanity #Four

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

#Mouths #Golden #Drowning

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

#Soul #Body #Nickels

Pull my trigger, I get bigger, then I'm lots of fun. I'm your gun, I'm your gun, gun, gun.
-- Alice Cooper

#Sex #Fun #Gun

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

#Sex #Ice Cream #Alive

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

#Rock And Roll #Two #Causes

No more Mr. Nice Guy.
-- Alice Cooper

#Revenge #Nice #Guy

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

#Honesty #Talking #Doubt

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

#Religious #Religion #Noses

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

#Religious #Korea #People

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

#Real #Needs #Adages

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

#Silly #Use #Lovers

Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.
-- Alice Cooper

#Family #Mother #Shields

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.
-- Alice Cooper

#Names #Boots #Suits

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

#Insanity #Want #Littles

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.
-- Alice Cooper

#Thinking #Appreciate #Trying

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
-- Alice Cooper

#New York #Cities #People

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

#Sound #Want #Wanted

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

#Manson

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

#Rocks #Albums #Band

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

#House #Fans #Rooms

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

#Trying

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

#Country #Giving Up #School

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.
-- Alice Cooper

#Real #Golf #Thinking

I'm 18 and I like it!
-- Alice Cooper

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.
-- Alice Cooper

#Song #Mind #Bigs

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.
-- Alice Cooper

#Use #Painting #Fit

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

#Play #Different #Albums

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

#Way

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

#Healthy #Tomatoes #Psychological

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

#Wife #Very Romantic #My Wife

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.
-- Alice Cooper

#Thinking #People #Female