Top 100 Nugent Quotes
#1. I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux
Cody Johnson
#2. David Nugent tore up the Championship but he's gone to Portsmouth and he's a fish up a tree
Paul Merson
#3. The families who chose me to take their terminally ill kids on their last hunts in life many times over the years know and love the real Ted Nugent. That they decide I'm good enough to take part in such a spiritual and emotional moment in their lives proves that I am good enough.
Ted Nugent
#4. I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.
Ian MacKaye
#5. For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
Ted Nugent
#6. So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.
Slash
#7. After the interview ended, Stone and I were ushered out. Alex had an interview with Ted Nugent to conduct. In the elevator, Stone scrutinized me. "When we try to assess threats," he said, "the kooks are almost always wearing snowsuits in 90-degree weather.
Jon Ronson
#8. God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters.
Ted Nugent
#9. I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
Ted Cruz
#10. When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
Eddie Vedder
#11. I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.
Anthony Bourdain
#12. I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited.
Ted Nugent
#13. BEFORE HE CAME INTO a lot of money in 1839, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, second Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, led a largely uneventful life.
Bill Bryson
#14. At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC.
Rick Rubin
#15. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.
Henry Rollins
#16. I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
Ian MacKaye
#17. The club supporters' old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose.
J.K. Rowling
#18. I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.
Ted Nugent
#19. Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you.If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.
Ted Nugent
#20. I was a walking, talking hunk of human poop,
Ted Nugent
#21. Diddums. Critics claim that somebody who had no children could
Liz Nugent
#22. If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him.
Ted Nugent
#23. While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
Ted Nugent
#24. My memory bank has overflowed out of control forever. I'm surprised my smile hasn't killed me yet. I have lived an indescribable joyful, adventurous, musical dream life and it just gets better every year.
Ted Nugent
#25. Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.
Ted Nugent
#26. I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government demands on all levels - intellectual, moral, historical, and spiritual level. We are supposed to be engaged and give directions to our elected employees.
Ted Nugent
#27. When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.
Ted Nugent
#28. I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.
Ted Nugent
#29. We're romantic. We're hopeful. We're done for. The worst part of this all? The idea of struggle and compromise seems exciting to us-that's how stupid we are. There's no stopping fools, I say. We're still kids at heart. Those dreams are still there. Now we just have to go chase them.
Alida Nugent
#30. I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
Ted Nugent
#31. Even the toughest of brothers can't make their sister change the things they think they are entitled to. They can't move you away from the jerks. They can simply hold their breath and their baseball bat.
Alida Nugent
#32. I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
Ted Nugent
#33. God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.
Ted Nugent
#34. If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you ... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.
Ted Nugent
#35. I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.
Ted Nugent
#36. Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!
Ted Nugent
#37. So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.
Ted Nugent
#38. Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
Ted Nugent
#39. Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
Ted Nugent
#40. They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?
Ted Nugent
#41. James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.
Ted Nugent
#42. If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.
Ted Nugent
#43. Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
Ted Nugent
#44. Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
Ted Nugent
#45. If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.
Ted Nugent
#46. Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
Ted Nugent
#47. An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.
Ted Nugent
#48. It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
Ted Nugent
#49. I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.
Ted Nugent
#50. There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.
Ted Nugent
#52. There is plenty of suffering before the good happens. This is something that I have taken stock in, because I've dealt with plenty of bullshit for somebody so fresh out of the womb.
Alida Nugent
#53. Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead.
Ted Nugent
#54. After all, the way I see it, it takes only one person to murder you. It also takes only one person to fill your heart with the kind of joy that slaps you straight off your high horse. For the first time in a long time, I found myself believing in the possibility of both.
Alida Nugent
#55. It's about ethical. It's about leading from the front, and it's kind of hard to look at people and say hey, listen, we need to cut back or it may cost you more money - if you're not willing to do the same thing.
Rich Nugent
#56. I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.
Ted Nugent
#57. There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.
Ted Nugent
#58. [I] never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.
Ted Nugent
#59. To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em.
Ted Nugent
#60. Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.
Ted Nugent
#61. Nobody wants to say, "I'm trying to get my feet on the ground" when they're in their twenties. They want you to think they're about to do something dangerous, or exciting, or different. We're not "living at home," we're "crashing until we can afford a pad in Brooklyn.
Alida Nugent
#62. The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.
Ted Nugent
#63. Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.
Ted Nugent
#64. When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.
Ted Nugent
#65. I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up.
Ted Nugent
#66. I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And of course even soulless wimps love killer music and my incredible guitar tone.
Ted Nugent
#67. I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.
Ted Nugent
#68. I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
Ted Nugent
#69. Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
Ted Nugent
#70. Chicken nuggets don't die any easier than baby fur seals.
Ted Nugent
#71. The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.
Ted Nugent
#72. I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution
Ted Nugent
#73. When I god older and realized my life was built around the idea my career would be something I wanted to love, to strive for, to be proud of, I was scared.
Alida Nugent
#74. Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.
Ted Nugent
#75. Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.
Ted Nugent
#76. I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.
Ted Nugent
#77. To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.
Ted Nugent
#78. If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.
Alida Nugent
#79. If there is one thing I am, it's always right.
Ted Nugent
#80. If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail.
Ted Nugent
#81. I'm repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex, I think it's against nature. I think it's strange as hell, but if that's what you are I love you. I'm not going to judge another's morals. I say live and let live. I have friends that are gay.
Ted Nugent
#82. And if you looking for a surefire way to turn a comfortable party into a very alcohol-fueled romp through gender politics, bring up feminism.
Alida Nugent
#83. I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent
#84. In hindsight, I know that high school is a festering pit of boredom and hormones, not to be taken as seriously as it seemed while I was there. It is earthly purgatory before you enter the better parts of your life: you've got one foot in heaven and the other in hell.
Alida Nugent
#85. My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one [is that] I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights [of] people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.
Ted Nugent
#86. I make a pussy purr with the stroke of my hand.
Ted Nugent
#87. Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.
Ted Nugent
#88. Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores.
Ted Nugent
#89. Those that are goofy enough to believe the outrageous lies and hate spewed about me in the mind-numb media are inconsequential and pathetic. Those that know me are certain of my goodness and connect with me deeply.
Ted Nugent
#90. The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.
Ted Nugent
#91. Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno ... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
Ted Nugent
#92. BEST ADVICE: Bring a jacket with you. Who knows where the day will end up?
Alida Nugent
#93. You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper.
Ted Nugent
#94. We still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.
Frank Nugent
#95. I really have the American dream licked.
Ted Nugent
#96. Let me tell you something - staying up all night working on a paper about Malcolm X ain't got shit on staying up all night wondering if you will run out of money.
Alida Nugent
#97. We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.
Ted Nugent
#98. Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
Ted Nugent
#99. I don't think it's spiritually economic to be a skeptic about absolutely everything.
Beth Nugent
#100. Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.
Ted Nugent
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