Allin Quotes

#1. GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really are. The human is just another animal who is able to speak out freely, to express himself clearly. Make no mistake about it, behind what he does is a brain.

John Wayne Gacy

#2. I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

Brian Pinkerton

#3. I am in control at all times.

GG Allin

#4. I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.

GG Allin

#5. I think what I do is positive, in its own way.

GG Allin

#6. The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Eric Allin Cornell

#7. I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite.

GG Allin

#8. If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

GG Allin

#9. My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Eric Allin Cornell

#10. After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

Eric Allin Cornell

#11. I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

GG Allin

#12. Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Eric Allin Cornell

#13. My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

GG Allin

#14. Annihilation is the triumph of death over life: it is the very antithesis to the gospel, which asserts the triumph of Christ over every form of death.

Thomas Allin

#15. It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

Eric Allin Cornell

#16. I don't think there will ever be a GG box set.

GG Allin

#17. With GG, you don't get what you expect. You get what you deserve.

GG Allin

#18. My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

Eric Allin Cornell

#19. I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

GG Allin

#20. That audience is there for me.

GG Allin

#21. I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

Eric Allin Cornell

#22. I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

GG Allin

#23. I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

Eric Allin Cornell

#24. Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.

GG Allin

#25. My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

GG Allin

#26. My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Eric Allin Cornell

#27. Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

Eric Allin Cornell

#28. Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Eric Allin Cornell

#29. I'd like to see anyone do what I do for one week.

GG Allin

#30. My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

GG Allin

#31. My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

Eric Allin Cornell

#32. I hate everybody.

GG Allin

#33. There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

Eric Allin Cornell

#34. No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.

GG Allin

#35. With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

Eric Allin Cornell

#36. Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

GG Allin

#37. Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

Eric Allin Cornell

#38. I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Eric Allin Cornell

#39. Death is a very important part of life.

GG Allin

#40. I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.

GG Allin

#41. I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.

GG Allin

#42. There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

GG Allin

#43. When you reach your peak its time to die.

GG Allin

#44. Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

Eric Allin Cornell

#45. It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

GG Allin

#46. Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Eric Allin Cornell

#47. As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

Eric Allin Cornell

#48. The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

Eric Allin Cornell

#49. I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

GG Allin

#50. You are what you are.

GG Allin

#51. Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example ... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

Eric Allin Cornell

#52. I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

GG Allin

#53. Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

GG Allin

#54. My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

GG Allin

#55. ..people who stutter may be of above intellect but have trouble putting the many ideas they have into words in an easily understood order without stuttering on using some other form of place-holding mechanism.

Bill Allin

#56. I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.

GG Allin