John Corabi Quotes

When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?

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• You've got to adapt - or get out.

  

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  • Adapt
  • Get Out

• When fans come to me, and they say, 'You're my favorite singer in rock music,' and I go, 'What about Steven Tyler?' 'No, I like you better.' 'What about Robert Plant?' 'I like you better.' That's kind of weird to me, because I'm like, 'No, dude - Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are gods.'

  

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  • Fans
  • Gods
  • Singer

• Unfortunately, the record I did with Motley wasn't exactly a huge success. But working with those guys was a huge learning experience as well as a really creative time, so I had an absolute blast during that five years of my life!

  

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  • Experience
  • Success
  • Learning

• For me, 'Resurrected' is just like I'm saying, 'I'm still here; I'm still having fun, and I'm still going.'

  

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  • Fun
  • Resurrected

• My son is my drummer.

  

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  • Drummer
  • My Son

• You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that's been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.

  

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  • Band
  • Records
  • Documentary

• I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

  

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  • Can Do
  • Documentary

• I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

  

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  • I Love
  • Bands
  • The Beatles

• From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

  

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  • God
  • Vocal
  • Standpoint

• My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.

  

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  • Woman
  • Raised
  • Pickup

• People laugh at my analogy in most cases - I go, 'Yeah, everything looks awesome on paper until you stick six guys in a submarine and go, 'Okay, go out and conquer America.''

  

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  • America
  • Laugh
  • Analogy

• If you don't like what you're doing, get out.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Doing
  • Get Out
  • Don't Like

• One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

  

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  • Door
  • Opens
  • Curvy

• Probably about 90 percent of the things that you read that supposedly came out of my mouth in regards to the Motley guys, usually most of it is incorrect. At the end of the day, I have no ill will.

  

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  • Ill
  • Regards
  • Incorrect

• That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Difficult
  • Learned
  • Coped

• When I started doing the acoustic shows, people would be yelling for 'Hooligan's Holiday' and 'Smoke The Sky,' and I had no idea of how to pull them off.

  

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  • Pull
  • No Idea
  • Acoustic

• Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.

  

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  • Bands
  • Blamed
  • Cohorts

• I've had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I've had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, 'At the end of the day, did you have a good time?' That's it.

  

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  • Fans
  • Good Time
  • Vocals

• I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Fan
  • Huge

• I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.

  

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  • Songwriter
  • Screamer

• I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.

  

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  • Shape
  • Don't Think
  • Harassment

• I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album - 'Father, Mother, Son.'

  

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  • Album
  • Scream
  • Resonates

• The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

  

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  • Guys
  • Musicians
  • Blast

• A lot of people assumed I faded off into the sunset.

  

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  • People
  • Sunset
  • Faded