Alice Cooper Quotes & Sayings

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

I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected. — Alice Cooper

Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there. — Alice Cooper

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

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

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

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

Baby, shut up and let me drink the wine from your fur tea cup. — Alice Cooper

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

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.' — Alice Cooper

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

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

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. — Alice Cooper

My 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 Cooper

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

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

It 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 Cooper

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment. — Alice Cooper

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. — Alice Cooper

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

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

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. — Alice Cooper

She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead. — Alice Cooper

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

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me. — Alice Cooper

I'm 18 and I like it! — Alice Cooper

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

It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put "Elected" out, it was definitely a satire ... "Alice Cooper for President" ... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes. — Alice Cooper

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

I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics ... When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick ... 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. 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

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

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

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. — Alice Cooper

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

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. — Alice Cooper

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

No more Mr. Nice Guy. — Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal? — Alice Cooper

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk. — Alice Cooper

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

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

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time. — Alice Cooper

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

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

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven. — Alice Cooper

If 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 Cooper

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true. — Alice Cooper

I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins)
I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name
Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (Deep in)
I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison — Alice Cooper

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

Give me lace and whiskey, Mama's own remedy. — Alice Cooper

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

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me. — Alice Cooper

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. — Alice Cooper

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

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

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

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. — Alice Cooper

We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith. — Alice Cooper

Take a look at my face, I am the future. — Alice Cooper

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

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

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

I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark. — Alice Cooper

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every single night, it 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 Cooper

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

I don't want to feel you die,
but if that's the way that God has planned you
Well, I'll put pennies on your eyes.
And it will go away, see?
You've only lived a minute of your life.
I must be dreaming ...
Is someone calling me? No ...
I think I hear a voice,
They're outside the door! — Alice Cooper

I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want. — Alice Cooper

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

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm. — Alice Cooper

The best things in life don't make sense — Alice Cooper

I got a muscle of love. — Alice Cooper

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

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage. — Alice Cooper

The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk. — Alice Cooper

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

I can't go to school, cause I don't have a gun. I ain't got a gun, cause I ain't got a job. I ain't got a job, cause I can't go to school. — Alice Cooper

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

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller. — Alice Cooper

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

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. — Alice Cooper

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

Make that money run like honey on your tongue. — Alice Cooper

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

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. — Alice Cooper

He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs. — Alice Cooper

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

Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical. — Alice Cooper

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

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

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

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

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

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now. — Alice Cooper