Alice Cooper Quotes

I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.

Alice Cooper

• Beatles
• Elvis
• Salvador Dali

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• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guitar
  • Now
  • Beatles

• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Question
  • Very
  • Beatles

• The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Great
  • Small
  • Beatles

• I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Early
  • Page

• India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Remember
  • Culture
  • India

• I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Songs
  • Beatles

• I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was one of those involved in recording a Beatles album.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Album
  • Recording
  • Beatles

• I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Door
  • Beatles

• No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Equal
  • Supreme
  • Elvis

• Theres still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology.

  

  Bob Spitz
  • Interest
  • Beatles
  • Mythology

• Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that its hard to know what really happened. Theres still so much to know.

  

  Bob Spitz
  • Stories
  • Fantasy
  • Beatles

• With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Song

• Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Guitar
  • Pickup
  • Elvis

• U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice there are people who've come before that were open about...

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • People
  • Religion
  • Elvis

• Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Jesus
  • Beatles
  • Lennon

• I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Sorry
  • Record
  • Don't Think

• Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things.

  

  Paul Charles Caravello Kiss
  • Different
  • Listen
  • Beatles

• My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

  

  Sean Connery
  • Girl
  • Beatles
  • Dom Perignon

• There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Rock N Roll
  • Stone
  • Beatles

• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

  

  Stephen Lang
  • Control
  • Stage
  • Adrenaline

• I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Beatles
  • Elvis
  • Salvador Dali