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

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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
  • Quite

• 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
  • Mythology
  • Beatles

• 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

• I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America. My father brought them home. It was definitely the earliest musical influence on my life, and still one of the greatest.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Father
  • Influence
  • Musical

• 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

• What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

  

  Piers Anthony

• I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Explore
  • Scientist
  • Builder

• I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Time
  • Music
  • Energy

• 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