Alice Cooper Quotes on Music
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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.
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I get onstage now with more attitude at fifty-seven than I had when I was twenty. When I was twenty, my attitude was kind of like, 'Yeah, yeah:I'm a big rock star.' Now, when I get onstage, I go up there, and I am the Moriarty of rock. I am the consummate villain. I am the Hannibal Lector of rock, and I play it like that. Alice just seems like an arrogant bastard or villain who is making the audience feel as though they are lucky to be there when in reality that is exactly the opposite of my personality. With Alice though:it is great to play him or portray him as an Alan Rickman type character who is very condescending. That's what makes him fun to watch - he's Captain Hook.
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I've said it before, and it's absolutely true: we were the group that drove a stake through the heart of the love generation.
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Rock music is sex music and violent music.
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The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
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The sicker our fans get, the sicker we'll get.