Allin Quotes & Sayings

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. — Eric Allin Cornell

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. — Eric Allin Cornell

I am in control at all times. — GG Allin

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined. — Brian Pinkerton

I think what I do is positive, in its own way. — GG Allin

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. — Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. — Eric Allin Cornell

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be. — GG Allin

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. — GG Allin

That audience is there for me. — GG Allin

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode. — GG Allin

With GG, you don't get what you expect. You get what you deserve. — GG Allin

No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable. — GG Allin

I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die. — GG Allin

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life. — GG Allin

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read. — Eric Allin Cornell

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. — Eric Allin Cornell

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. — Eric Allin Cornell

You are what you are. — GG Allin

Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it. — GG Allin

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. — Eric Allin Cornell

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back. — Eric Allin Cornell

I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me. — GG Allin

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer. — GG Allin

GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human is just another animal who is able to speak out freely, to express himself clearly. Make no mistake about it, behind what he does is a brain. — John Wayne Gacy

I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite. — GG Allin

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. — GG Allin

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell

Death is a very important part of life. — GG Allin

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. — Eric Allin Cornell

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street. — GG Allin

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later. — Eric Allin Cornell

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. — Eric Allin Cornell

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. — Eric Allin Cornell

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. — Eric Allin Cornell

I don't think there will ever be a GG box set. — GG Allin

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. — Eric Allin Cornell

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want. — GG Allin

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way. — GG Allin

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. — Eric Allin Cornell

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was. — GG Allin

I'd like to see anyone do what I do for one week. — GG Allin

I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself. — GG Allin

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example ... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad? — Eric Allin Cornell

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely. — GG Allin

I hate everybody. — GG Allin

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. — Eric Allin Cornell

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. — Eric Allin Cornell

When you reach your peak its time to die. — GG Allin

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target. — GG Allin

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. — Eric Allin Cornell

..people who stutter may be of above intellect but have trouble putting the many ideas they have into words in an easily understood order without stuttering on using some other form of place-holding mechanism. — Bill Allin

Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker. — GG Allin

Annihilation is the triumph of death over life: it is the very antithesis to the gospel, which asserts the triumph of Christ over every form of death. — Thomas Allin

I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there. — GG Allin

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything. — GG Allin