Quotes by Alice Cooper

• Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.
• We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.
• They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.
• 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.
• We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.
• The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
• We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it.
• We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.
• We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.
• 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.
• You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.
• 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.
• That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.
• We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.
• Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.
• I'm 18 and I like it!
• So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.
• We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.
• 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.
• Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
• 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.
• He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
• I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• It'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.
• It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dream big, climb high, soar higher.
• Success is not about being the best, but being your best.
• The key to unlocking success lies within the courage to navigate through uncertainty.
• We shape our destiny through the choices we make today, paving the way for our future.
• Fear is a milestone to greatness, not a roadblock.
• Don't go counting your chickens before they're hatched, unless you're a chicken farmer playing the lottery!
• Life is too short to be anything but happy...except maybe a little bit interesting.