Top 44 John Corabi Quotes

I’m a huge Glenn Hughes fan.

Pretty much every record I’ve ever done, I can go back and listen to them and be proud. I’m proud of everything I’ve done.

Motley never once sat down and said, ‘Well, the music scene’s changing. We need to make this record a little darker or heavier musically or lyrically.’ It was just four guys sitting in a room like a bunch of 16-year-olds in a garage and jamming on riffs.

It’s weird, for me as a fan, to have a fan tell me that I’m their favorite singer. It’s still a little awkward for me. I love to hear it, but I don’t know how to respond to it. It’s a very awkward thing to interpret what somebody else sees in me.

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.”

I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn’t that many.

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.

I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.

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

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.

I had a great run with Ratt.

I’m a huge Aerosmith fan.

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.

Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.

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

I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.

Touring is very tough.

Bands have good nights, and they have bad nights. I’m not going to cover up anything or pretend. For me, personally, that’s just my thought process.

I have a beautiful wife, I have two great kids, my career’s still going, I’ve got my health. What can I ask for?

I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

I think we had kind of a die-hard fan base when it came out, but a lot of the people were angry with Motley for getting rid of Vince, or Vince leaving or whatever happened.

The bands that do well don’t get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.

To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don’t realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.

I’m a songwriter, and I’m more than just a screamer.

I think the thing with ‘Rise Up,’ something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

With technology being the way that it is right now with Pro Tools and all that other stuff, more and more people are recording stuff at home and just utilizing Youtube and Facebook.

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.’

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.

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

I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album – ‘Father, Mother, Son.’

I don’t know what he wants to do musically, but at the end of the day, I love Mick Mars – he’s one of the sweetest human beings you’ll ever meet in your life – and anything I can do to help him with his solo record, I would be more than happy to do.

My son is my drummer.

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.

Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.

I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

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

Everything happens for a reason. Like, I kind of hear people go, ‘Man, you’ve been in a lot of bands.’ Yes, I have. I’ve also been married several times, too, and every time I get into something, I think, ‘This is the one.’ I think that’s just human nature.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don’t like taking sides.

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

It doesn’t bother me when someone is totally unaware of anything I’ve ever been in or done and says, ‘Hey, man, I really like your music. I’ve never heard of you.’ That doesn’t bother me at all.

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.

You’ve got to adapt – or get out.