Ted Nugent Quotes & Sayings

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil. — Ted Nugent

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever. — Ted Nugent

I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and the family time, and just my lifestyle living on a ranch in Texas and back when I lived on my ranch in Michigan. It's the epitome of individual independence, self-sufficiency, hands-on, earthly celebration and we tour every summer like complete animals. — Ted Nugent

Jerry [Garcia] got high and Jerry's dead. I went hunting and I'm still Ted. — Ted Nugent

We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials. — Ted Nugent

I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And of course even soulless wimps love killer music and my incredible guitar tone. — Ted Nugent

There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people. — Ted Nugent

I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted. — Ted Nugent

Chicken nuggets don't die any easier than baby fur seals. — Ted Nugent

I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well. — Ted Nugent

I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail. — Ted Nugent

My idea of fast food is a mallard. — Ted Nugent

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way. — Ted Nugent

I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years ... or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight. — Ted Nugent

The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof. — Ted Nugent

The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil
instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of views that destroy lives. We the thoughtful, productive people of American have got to take our freedom back. — Ted Nugent

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War. — Ted Nugent

They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation? — Ted Nugent

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak. — Ted Nugent

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration. — Ted Nugent

I'm a lucky, lucky man. I mean, the people I surround myself with are so inspiration. They're so motivational and they're so dynamic and positive. You really can't stop that positive force when everything and everyone around you is so positive. — Ted Nugent

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything. — Ted Nugent

I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America, — Ted Nugent

If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today. — Ted Nugent

Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food. — Ted Nugent

There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable. — Ted Nugent

Practice, practice, practice. Practice until you get a guitar welt on your chest ... if it makes you feel good, don't stop until you see the blood from your fingers. Then you'll know you're on to something! — Ted Nugent

My memory bank has overflowed out of control forever. I'm surprised my smile hasn't killed me yet. I have lived an indescribable joyful, adventurous, musical dream life and it just gets better every year. — Ted Nugent

Hunting is the last perfect thing. — Ted Nugent

What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms. — Ted Nugent

God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible. — Ted Nugent

You remember the night that you left me, you put me in my place. Got you in a stranglehold now baby, gonna crush your face. — Ted Nugent

I don't care if it's Bruno Mars or Aerosmith or ZZ Top ... it's about songs. 'Paperback Writer,' 'Satisfaction,' 'Cat Scratch Fever,' 'Walk This Way,' all the killer songs in the world start with an identifiable guitar pattern that is basically a bastardization of either honky-tonk or boogie-woogie. And that's in every cool piece of music in the world that you and I love. — Ted Nugent

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll. — Ted Nugent

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel. — Ted Nugent

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today. — Ted Nugent

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece. — Ted Nugent

Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno ... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world. — Ted Nugent

How many more times are we going to cower under tables and chairs, whimpering like mindless dogs, thinking that someone else has the responsibility to save and protect us? — Ted Nugent

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet. — Ted Nugent

Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores. — Ted Nugent

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you.If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams. — Ted Nugent

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself. — Ted Nugent

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil. — Ted Nugent

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. — Ted Nugent

Pat Buchanan ... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network ... The real message of the left is intolerance, zealotry, bigotry and hate. The left has no use for the First Amendment or the rest of the Constitution unless it fits their multicultural, euro-socialist agenda, which is failing all across Europe and everywhere it is practiced. — Ted Nugent

God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters. — Ted Nugent

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you ... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie. — Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie. — Ted Nugent

To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em. — Ted Nugent

The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard. — Ted Nugent

I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware. — Ted Nugent

I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited. — Ted Nugent

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me. — Ted Nugent

I really have the American dream licked. — Ted Nugent

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior. — Ted Nugent

I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a gut pile addict ... The pig didn't know I was there ... it's my kick ... I love shafting animals ... it's rock 'n' roll power. — Ted Nugent

Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else. — Ted Nugent

I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution — Ted Nugent

Real Americans don't back down. — Ted Nugent

If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me. — Ted Nugent

Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada — Ted Nugent

I'd like to have James Brown as my singer. I already have the best drummer, Tommy Clufetos. I've jammed a bunch with John Entwistle, and it was like a musical orgy. That guy is a living, breathing, grunting rhythm. For horns, let's go with the Stax/Volt guys, and I'm going to have Steve Cropper on standby just in case I want a rhythm guitarist. — Ted Nugent

My band and music are so intense they scare me, and I'm not afraid of anything. We love our music with everything we got and deliver the most inebriating fun concerts on earth every night. — Ted Nugent

I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way. — Ted Nugent

Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted. — Ted Nugent

I like Dave Grohl, I guess he's a little newer. It makes you shake, it's uppity and spirited. — Ted Nugent

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. — Ted Nugent

I dont partake in assembly-line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me. — Ted Nugent

When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice. — Ted Nugent

While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned. — Ted Nugent

I can hear her thunder, she's coming after me, thunder thighs. — Ted Nugent

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces. — Ted Nugent

Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys. — Ted Nugent

There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed, — Ted Nugent

Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead. — Ted Nugent

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world. — Ted Nugent

I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that. — Ted Nugent

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective. — Ted Nugent

Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin' and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie ... Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value ... Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up. — Ted Nugent

As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place. — Ted Nugent

Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard. — Ted Nugent

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life. — Ted Nugent

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. — Ted Nugent

Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter! — Ted Nugent

I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless. — Ted Nugent

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar. — Ted Nugent

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely. — Ted Nugent

You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands at his side, blabbering incoherently to his next victim, the reaction of grown men and women is to run, cry, whimper, and hide under a desk or pew? The sheeping of America is nearly complete. — Ted Nugent

The culture war in America can best be described by the battle between workin' hard, playin' hard s - tkickers that bust our ass to make America strong by earning our own way and kickin' maximum ass versus soulless weaklings who have been brainwashed into thinking they are entitled to a free ride. — Ted Nugent

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic. — Ted Nugent

I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do. — Ted Nugent

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you. — Ted Nugent

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. — Ted Nugent

Those that are goofy enough to believe the outrageous lies and hate spewed about me in the mind-numb media are inconsequential and pathetic. Those that know me are certain of my goodness and connect with me deeply. — Ted Nugent

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. — Ted Nugent

I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps. — Ted Nugent

If we want our bodies to be healthier, we need to get off the salmonella, e-coli, mad cow, assembly-line toxic hell train! God I love that statement. What did I just say? — Ted Nugent

My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one [is that] I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights [of] people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill. — Ted Nugent

I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on. — Ted Nugent