“A lot of people assumed I faded off into the sunset.”
― John Corabi
“I don’t think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.”
― John Corabi
“I have a beautiful wife, I have two great kids, my career’s still going, I’ve got my health. What can I ask for?”
― John Corabi
“One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It’s all good.”
― John Corabi
“When fans come to me, and they say, ‘You’re my favorite singer in rock music,’ and I go, ‘What about Steven Tyler?’ ‘No, I like you better.’ ‘What about Robert Plant?’ ‘I like you better.’ That’s kind of weird to me, because I’m like, ‘No, dude – Steven Tyler and Robert Plant are gods.’”
― John Corabi
“I don’t know what he wants to do musically, but at the end of the day, I love Mick Mars – he’s one of the sweetest human beings you’ll ever meet in your life – and anything I can do to help him with his solo record, I would be more than happy to do.”
― John Corabi
“People laugh at my analogy in most cases – I go, ‘Yeah, everything looks awesome on paper until you stick six guys in a submarine and go, ‘Okay, go out and conquer America.””
― John Corabi
“My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah – whatever.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“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?”
― John Corabi
“Unfortunately, the record I did with Motley wasn’t exactly a huge success. But working with those guys was a huge learning experience as well as a really creative time, so I had an absolute blast during that five years of my life!”
― John Corabi
“I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.”
― John Corabi
“I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.”
― John Corabi
“I love trying new things and experimenting with instruments and sounds.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“I’m a huge Glenn Hughes fan.”
― John Corabi
“From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.”
― John Corabi
“Even Nikki with Sixx:A.M., I wish you the best of luck.”
― John Corabi
“The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“Bands have good nights, and they have bad nights. I’m not going to cover up anything or pretend. For me, personally, that’s just my thought process.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“My son is my drummer.”
― John Corabi
“I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.”
― John Corabi
“Touring is very tough.”
― John Corabi
“Everybody that I’ve ever played with is awesome, and I’ve learned from all of them, so it’s all good.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“I’m a songwriter, and I’m more than just a screamer.”
― John Corabi
“I don’t like doing what people would expect of me.”
― John Corabi
“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.’”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“Bands like – even Kiss to a degree – bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi – I just think the days of those bands going out and selling ten or twelve, fifteen million records like they used to do back in the day, it’s not happening.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“You’ve got to adapt – or get out.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“It doesn’t bother me when someone is totally unaware of anything I’ve ever been in or done and says, ‘Hey, man, I really like your music. I’ve never heard of you.’ That doesn’t bother me at all.”
― John Corabi
“I’m a huge Aerosmith fan.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“I had a few friends that were with me before I was in Motley that were there after I was in Motley, and it wasn’t that many.”
― John Corabi
“If you don’t like what you’re doing, get out.”
― John Corabi
“I had a great run with Ratt.”
― John Corabi
“There’s just some things you can’t change.”
― John Corabi
“Every band has an ‘off’ night once in a while – that’s gonna happen.”
― John Corabi
“For me, ‘Resurrected’ is just like I’m saying, ‘I’m still here; I’m still having fun, and I’m still going.’”
― John Corabi
“I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album – ‘Father, Mother, Son.’”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“I love giving you my opinion, but I don’t like taking sides.”
― John Corabi
“Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.”
― John Corabi
“I think the thing with ‘Rise Up,’ something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.”
― John Corabi
“I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.”
― John Corabi
“Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.”
― John Corabi
“That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.”
― John Corabi
“Doug Aldrich and I grew up in Philadelphia together, and Doug used to come and see a cover band that I was in. He was, like, 15 or 16, and I was, like, 18, 19.”
― John Corabi
“I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.”
― John Corabi
“You see a documentary, you want to see it on Aerosmith or Jon Bon Jovi or Kiss, a band that’s been established and sold millions of records and done something notable.”
― John Corabi
“I truly believe that everything happens for a reason.”
― John Corabi
“Looking at it half-full, there was only two singers in Motley, me and Vince, and I’m still here, 25 years later. And whether I like it or not, I’m the other singer for Motley Crue, and not to sound weird, but I’ve gotten a lot of extra mileage, I think, out of my career because of it, so I have nothing but positive things to say.”
― John Corabi
“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.”
― John Corabi
“Pretty much every record I’ve ever done, I can go back and listen to them and be proud. I’m proud of everything I’ve done.”
― John Corabi
“The bands that do well don’t get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.”
― John Corabi
“I have fans that write to me and say, ‘Why do you have those blonde streaks in the front of your hair?’ And I’m like, ‘It’s not blonde. It’s grey.’”
― John Corabi
“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.’”
― John Corabi
Leave a Reply