GG Allin Quotes

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

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

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.

Death is a very important part of life.

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

My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

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

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

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

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

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

Your soul should be as strong as possible when it leaves here for whatever comes next.

You are what you are.

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

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.

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

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

When you reach your peak it's time to die.

Every show could be the last one.

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

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.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I am in control at all times.

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

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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.

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

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

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

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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

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