John Corabi Quotes

I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.

There’s just some things you can’t change.

I think we had kind of a die-hard fan base when it came out, but a lot of the people were angry with Motley for getting rid of Vince, or Vince leaving or whatever happened.

When I was in The Scream, I thought I’d be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.

The thing I wasn’t prepared for was when I wasn’t in Motley Crue anymore. ‘Cause as much as my phone was ringing, it stopped ringing.

I’ve had Motley fans come up to me and talk to me about Motley. I’ve had other fans talk to me about all the backing vocals and the tapes. I just ask them, ‘At the end of the day, did you have a good time?’ That’s it.

Motley never once sat down and said, ‘Well, the music scene’s changing. We need to make this record a little darker or heavier musically or lyrically.’ It was just four guys sitting in a room like a bunch of 16-year-olds in a garage and jamming on riffs.

Everybody that I’ve ever played with is awesome, and I’ve learned from all of them, so it’s all good.

When I started doing the acoustic shows, people would be yelling for ‘Hooligan’s Holiday’ and ‘Smoke The Sky,’ and I had no idea of how to pull them off.

With technology being the way that it is right now with Pro Tools and all that other stuff, more and more people are recording stuff at home and just utilizing Youtube and Facebook.

I only ever did one hotel room because at the end of the tour, I had a little less money than the rest of the guys, and the tour manager said, ‘You remember that hotel room you destroyed in Iowa? Well, we had to pay for it.’ And I was like, ‘Ooooh. That’s how it works.’

We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, get out.

From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.

I don’t like doing what people would expect of me.

I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

Everything happens for a reason. Like, I kind of hear people go, ‘Man, you’ve been in a lot of bands.’ Yes, I have. I’ve also been married several times, too, and every time I get into something, I think, ‘This is the one.’ I think that’s just human nature.

I’m a huge Glenn Hughes fan.

I think the thing with ‘Rise Up,’ something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

I had a great run with Ratt.

A lot of people assumed I faded off into the sunset.

I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

Touring is very tough.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don’t like taking sides.

To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don’t realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.

I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.

I’m a huge Aerosmith fan.

Probably about 90 percent of the things that you read that supposedly came out of my mouth in regards to the Motley guys, usually most of it is incorrect. At the end of the day, I have no ill will.

I want to show people that I’m not just that guy who can get out there and scream ‘Hooligan’s Holiday’ and ‘Smoke The Sky.’

Motley is a great band; they’re a legendary band. They’re probably going to go into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at some point.

Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the ’80s and ’90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.

It’s weird, for me as a fan, to have a fan tell me that I’m their favorite singer. It’s still a little awkward for me. I love to hear it, but I don’t know how to respond to it. It’s a very awkward thing to interpret what somebody else sees in me.

I think that everything you do, everything that you start and everything that you end, it does that for a reason, and it’s to move forward on to the next thing or the next road or the next path or whatever.

For me, ‘Resurrected’ is just like I’m saying, ‘I’m still here; I’m still having fun, and I’m still going.’