Alice Cooper quotes

Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter, and actor, recognized as a pioneer of shock rock. His theatrical stage shows feature guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and elaborate costumes. He has influenced generations of musicians and is celebrated for his unique blend of music and performance art. Here are 78 of his quotes:

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. (Alice Cooper)
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. View quote
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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. View quote
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The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller. View quote
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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. View quote
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The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. View quote
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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. View quote
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He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original. View quote
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Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion. View quote
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Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python. View quote
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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!" View quote
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I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. View quote
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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. View quote
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How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Well, before you are always self-you're always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that's what changes: the focus on who you're serving. You're not serving you. You're serving Christ. View quote
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I'm telling you, the Devil is very smart. He's not going to come out with the horns and the tail. He's going to come in as the slickest car salesman you ever saw – and I've seen some pretty slick pastors on TV. Now that's not to say they're all like that. ... But every time I hear something that goes a little left of center, I go, ‘What? What was that?' You know, too much healing on TV, I don't know about that. That's showbiz I think. View quote
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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity...that's rebellion. View quote
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If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10. View quote
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Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper - Image
Photo: Ross Halfin, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Musician
Born: February 4, 1948
Quotes count: 78
Wikipedia: Alice Cooper

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