Ieri 17 Marzo Alice Cooper ha ricevuto un dottorato honoris causa dal The Musician’s Institute di Los Angeles per la sua carriera musicale ed ha tenuto il discorso di laurea per 600 neo laureati presso l’istituto. Riguardo la premiazione ha dichiarato: “Un altro di questi e posso scrivere prescrizioni”.
Alcuni estratti dal suo discorso:
“Mediocrity is your greatest enemy”.
“If you’re going to be in this business, don’t be afraid to go out on that limb as far as you can”.
“If you succeed you become a genius, if you fail you become an idiot. You can always start again”.
“Apparently chickens don’t fly as much as they plummet”.
“Elvis said to me ‘Hey man yer that cat with the makeup and the snakes. That’s cool man I dig that’. ”
“So there I was with a loaded snub nose Smith and Wesson 38 aimed at Elvis Presley. The little devil on my shoulder said ‘Kill em’. The angel the other shoulder said ‘No just wound him’… “