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.
Alice CooperWe just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.
Alice CooperThroughout 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 CooperHe lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.
Alice CooperWhy 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 CooperWhile friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.
Alice CooperWhen you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.
Alice CooperWhy 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 CooperThey'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 CooperMy granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.
Alice CooperYou 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.
Alice CooperIf you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.
Alice CooperIt doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.
Alice CooperI'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark.
Alice CooperIt used to be said: As GM goes, so goes America. Now it's: As Starbucks goes, so goes America.
Alice CooperMilitant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.
Alice CooperEvery 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.
Alice CooperMy 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 CooperI 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 CooperIf 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 CooperYou 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 CooperDrinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
Alice CooperI 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 CooperShe wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.
Alice CooperI ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone.
Alice CooperThey 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 CooperIt's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.
Alice CooperTwo 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.
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