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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band QUOTES

1 " I question a lot of things and form my own opinions. They're just as valid as a rocket scientist's or anyone else's. Who says you have to believe something because you read it in a book or saw pictures? Who is it that gets to say "That's the way that it is"? When everybody believes the same thing, they become robotic. People have a brain; they can figure out things for themselves. "

― Mick Mars , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

2 " I've already spent ten years of my life apologizing for that band. As their manager, that's all I really did. Apologize. For years afterward I'd walk into a hotel lobby and the receptionist would call to me, 'Mr. McGhee.' And I'd run up and drop to my knees and say, 'Oh, Jesus, I'm really sorry.'
They'd look at me funny and say, 'No, nothing's wrong. You have a telephone call.'
And I'd breathe a sigh of relief and thank the good Lord above that I wasn't managing Mötley Crüe anymore.

~ Doc McGhee. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

3 " On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

4 " We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

5 " There was one dude in a jeans jacket who I swear to God shit in his pants when all of a sudden I was inches away from his face playing drums in the air. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

6 " The angry man will defeat Himself in battle As well as in life. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

7 " Fate, however, has a way of finding your vulnerabilities where you least expect them, illuminating them so that you realize how glaringly obvious they are, and then mercilessly driving a spike straight into their most delicate center. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

8 " But what everybody always loved Mötley Crüe for was being a fucking decadent band: for being able to walk in a room and inhale all the alcohol, girls, pills, and trouble in sight. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

9 " I announced to everyone that I was embarking on a solo tour. Not a music tour, but a tour of drugs and prostitutes. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

10 " If there’s one genetic trait that automatically disqualifies a man from being able to rock, it’s curly hair. Nobody cool has curly hair; people like Richard Simmons, the guy from Greatest American Hero, and the singer from REO Speedwagon have curls. The only exceptions are Ian Hunter from Mott the Hoople, whose hair is more tangled than curly, and Slash, but his hair is fuzzy and that’s cool. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

11 " I understood then why rock stars have such big egos: from the stage, the world is just one faceless, shirtless, obedient mass, as far as the eye can see. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

12 " I just wanted peace and quiet. So I waded into the ocean with a bellar in my hand. The waves were cold and kept smacking my clothes, higher and higher, until they knocked my drink out of my hand. Soon, my hair was wet and sticking to the back of my neck. Then I blacked out. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

13 " Nowadays, I don’t believe in the Christian concept of a God who created people for the sole purpose of judging and punishing them. After all, if one of the commandments is “Thou shalt not kill,” does that make God a hypocrite when he does things like flooding the world or destroying Sodom and Gomorrah? "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

14 " Those words—“Trust me, I’m a junkie”—should have been a clue right there. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

15 " But, unlike us, Ozzy had a restraint, a limit, a conscience, a brake. And that restraint came in the form of a homely, rotund little British woman whose very name sets lips trembling and knees knocking: Sharon Osbourne, a shitkicker and disciplinarian like no other we had ever met, a woman whose presence could in an instant send us reeling back to our childhood fear of authority. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

16 " Silence equals death. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

17 " A funny thing about girls, though, is that the more you do wrong, the more they like you. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

18 " There were always blind, deaf, or handicapped people hanging around the brothers, and I figured it was evidence that they either had a soft, compassionate side or were running some kind of mysterious scam. "

― Mick Mars , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

19 " Did you get your presents from me?" I asked.
"Nikki." Doc grimaced. "You're sick. I answered the door, and there were two girls in Nazi outfits and a nun. What's wrong with you?"
"Fuck, Doc. I was just having fun. How about you, Mr. Udo? Did you enjoy your gifts?"
"My wife is like my air," he said.
"Huh?"
"Without her, I cannot live, She is my air."
I stood there feeling like a giant prick. I had tried to contaminate his air. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

20 " Some people say that time cures all wounds, but I think that time is the wound. "

― Neil Strauss , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band