Shawn Crahan Quotes

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

At school, I was a lot more advanced compared to the other kids but I didn't like authority and was kicked out for fighting.

I even opened a nightclub called Evonne's.

I opened my first bar that I owned in 1989. The first one I ever owned was in downtown St. Louis.

That's where it all started for me, in clubs and bars, and I don't ever wanna outgrow that.

I have very fond memories of Basil's Bar. It was an extraordinary place. You would go for a drink and it would be empty except for the bar bore, which was David Bowie.

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own.

I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .

You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.

We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.

There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

I like to go to bars and bang really ugly girls, I just like to, I'm just a sick guy.

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.

I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.

Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.