Top 25 Piper Quotes

I don’t want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.

That was the ultimate high, playing live. You feel like the Pied Piper, or a conductor, knowing how to take an audience up or bring them down.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

So many of us can recall growing up with Gene Okerlund as the voice of our childhoods while interviewing the likes of Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage, Sting, and others.

When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I’ll go: ‘You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I’m so glad I didn’t.’ Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

I was always taught if you do something, face the piper. Try to make it right.

The main reason I started The Katie Piper Foundation was because I had treatment abroad that I wanted other burns survivors in this country to have access to.

Piper took me one step further in that it got my first real recording contract but the band just didn’t quite mature. It didn’t break things open, but it got me to the door.

The ‘Damsels’ crew was low-budget, young people who were doing their first thing almost. A lot of it. It felt like Pied Piper or Rumpelstiltskin or whatever: it was me and people thirty years younger or more. But it was great; it was really fun.

Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.

I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.

When I was 14, I was 5th in the world playing bagpipes – that’s how I got the name Roddy the Piper, and then, you know, eventually it just became ‘Roddy Piper.’

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who’s an uilleann piper.

Once I saw Roddy Piper I knew exactly what I was going to be doing when I grew up.

I don’t really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don’t read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That’s all I can tell you.

‘Piper’s Pit’ was totally unscripted – everything just happened – thus, innovation was a challenging must to accomplish.

I owe a lot to Roddy Piper.

I’ve called myself the Pied Piper, I’ve called myself the Weatherman, I’ve called myself Kellz, I’ve called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

There’s a picture of me at 3 years old playing the baby rat in ‘The Pied Piper.’

I’ve pinched things from people I look up to, of course, like Roddy Piper, and CM Punk, and Terry Funk, those guys who I love, so of course it’s going to happen.

‘Pied Piper’ came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not ‘dark,’ per se.

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn’t doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

Nobody was ever better than Roddy Piper was when it came to interviews. He didn’t pull no punches. He wasn’t afraid of nothin’ or nobody. He was a trip, and he was good people, too. He was a good friend. A damn good friend.