Alice Cooper Quotes

• You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society – the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that’s what this is.

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• You can’t get the visual thing on the record as much as you’d like to. We produced this album, and we’d never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

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• Yet I was Marilyn Manson – times 10.

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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.

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• Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college – we were in art college together.

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• We wanted it more live and raw. We didn’t want a studio sound.

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• We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it’s us.

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• 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.

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• We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

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• We like reactions – a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that’s a healthy psychological reaction.

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

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

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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.

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• 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.

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• They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don’t like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they’re not sure what they saw.

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• The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

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• That’s like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn’t completely right, because he isn’t in the norm.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Alice Cooper (35)

Birth:	4th February, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal designed to shock. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit I'm Eighteen from the album Love It to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011 the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cooper also starred as himself in the 2012 Tim Burton remake of Dark Shadows that also starred Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter as well as the series original actors Jonathan Frid, Kathryn Leigh Scott, and Lara Parker in cameo roles.

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