82 Rob Zombie Quotes From The Famous Singer

Robert Bartleh Cummings, better known as Rob Zombie, is a famous American singer, film producer, voice actor, film director, and songwriter and one of the most successful musicians in the American music industry.On January 12, 1965, Rob Zombie was born, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in the United States of America. He is the older brother of Michael David Cummings, also called Spider One, and his brother is a founding member of Powerman 5000, a rock band.Check out these fantastic Rob Zombie quotes from the famous singer about life, death, love, and time.Rob Zombie Quotes About LifeHere is some awesome Rob Zombie quotes about life that you can learn from, take your life next level, and achieve success and greatness.“White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can’t do it.““I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that’s why I like things that are more extreme.““I really just do what I like. I don’t understand what the general public likes sometimes.““My advice: Don’t quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn’t give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.”- September 19, 2005, www.menshealth.com, Joe Pugliese.“I don’t believe in fate, because I’m not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.““I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that – it still seems freaky.”- August 25, 2009, www.collider.com, David Gralnik.“You can’t make everyone happy right away, you can’t figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.““When you have too many people and you’re trying to satisfy everybody’s input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.““Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered, you get lazy.““The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It’s not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it’s the indie bands that don’t have two cents to their name."-November 11, 2014, www.torrentfreak.com, Andy Maxwell.“I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn’t be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.““Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you’re going to have years of failure.““When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it’s kind of just like your gut that tells you, “You’re done, walk away” because you can always keep fixing it.““I try to stay friends with everybody because you might go back and work with somebody who you had a horrible experience with and it could be great the next time. You never know which way it’s going to go, never say never.”- October 24, 2014, www.joblo.com, Eric Walkuski.“I don’t like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.““I’m not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I’m sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.““On the first feature, everything’s new. No matter what you’re doing, it’s a new experience, and you don’t really have control over it, in a way, because you just don’t know how things work.““No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it’s forgotten quickly after and it’s the original that still lives on.““If you have a lot of money, you know that you can make almost anything happen, but with a smaller budget you don’t have a lot of time or too many resources, so you have to conceive things in a very simple manner and make them happen fast.”- April 18, 2013, www.complex.com, Matt Barone.“Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it’s mo’ money, mo’ problems. When you have more money, it just creates more people trying to get involved and you have more trouble.”- April 19, 2013, www.collider.com, Christina Radish.“Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn’t know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they’ll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.”- September 14, 2012, www.indiewire.com, Nigel M. Smith.Rob Zombie Quotes About LoveTake a look at some of these favorite Rob Zombie quotes about love.“I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.”- August 2, 2005, www.avclub.com, Scott Tobias.“I don’t want to just make horror movies; I don’t want to just make any type of movie – I don’t just like horror movies, I love movies. ““Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?”-‘Living Dead Girl’, 1998.“I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn’t happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.““I don’t know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that’s weird..““It wasn’t so compartmentalized as it is now where people want to find reasons to dislike everything. I just loved music.”- July 19, 2014, www.onstagereview.com, Tammy Vega.“The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything’s accessible, so you can get it, but when everything’s accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you’re not interested, you don’t.““As far as directors, I’m a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.““I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.““I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.““I’ve always loved Alice Cooper.““The only thing I ever really care about is animals – animal causes. I don’t really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected.”- October 3, 2012, www.robzombie.com.“The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything’s accessible, so you can get it, but when everything’s accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you’re not interested, you don’t.“Rob Zombie Quotes About TimeHere are the top Rob Zombie quotes about time for you.“All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.““Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You’re either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.““One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don’t want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it’s a twist ending. I just wanted it to unfold in a sort of surreal dream-like manner.”- April 29, 2013, www.indiewire.com, Drew Taylor.“Sometimes things just aren’t of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.““Every time I start the next movie, it’s as exciting as the first time."“As you get older, you see that time becomes more precious and you try to jam more into it.”-www.robzombie.com.Other Interesting Rob Zombie QuotesCheck out these super and other interesting Rob Zombie quotes here.“I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.““I’m never aiming to make a movie like someone else’s movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn’t seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.““When I watch a movie, I don’t make a sound or move. The more I’m into the movie, the more bored I look.““NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won’t run the spots on MTV, won’t run the advertising. It’s the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.““My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that’s always my goal.““The funny thing is, I’m so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things… I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn’t.““To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.““I’m not extremely political. I think everything should be layed out and you can make your own conclusions. As soon as I feel I’m being taught something or preached something, I just glaze over it and I don’t want to hear it.““I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.““I think if you’re going to remake a film it should be something that was a good idea, but wasn’t executed well. There isn’t anything I would like to remake. I have too many of my own ideas I want to make.““I think if you’re going to remake a film it should be something that was a good idea, but wasn’t executed well. There isn’t anything I would like to remake. I have too many of my own ideas I want to make.““I could care less what people think.““I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn’t hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn’t affect anyone - come on.““I like being organized and super particular.““Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.““When you can program your own life, you’re just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people’s taste becomes much more narrow-minded.““I don’t do anything for the money. I don’t need to. I could have retired after White Zombie and been just fine. Money doesn’t matter. But there is still a good living to be made, even in the niche. The funny thing is, as time goes on, the niche stuff gets bigger and bigger.”- November 20, 2017, www.believermag.com, Andrew Paul.“People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.““Sometimes I feel like people don’t even know how to react in some situations because of online culture. Since many things are online, you might not react to something that is happening live.““It’s lifestyle music. It’s not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can’t name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We’ll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.““The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like ‘you want to do this again’?““When I came off the Halloween movies, they were very stressful movies to make. That had been four very stressful years. I’m happy with how they turned out, but getting the end results took so much fighting with people and so much craziness, that at the end of it I was so burnt out."-April 18, 2013, www.complex.com, Matt Barone.“It’s never been about making money.““The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it’s been shot at night with a security camera.““Short answers seem like you don’t care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.““I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it’s bad.““I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven’t crossed them over that much.““I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it’s supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.““Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That’s Hollywood.““By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.““Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it’s a huge undertaking.““The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it’s not like it’s all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer’s personality is different. You never know what you’re going to do.““There are so many projects that don’t happen, just sometimes they don’t get announced, so no one ever knows about them and you don’t have to talk about them.““The funny thing is, I’m so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn’t.““I’m definitely of the mindset of “I wouldn’t want to be part of any group that would have me as a member.““But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.““Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.““I’d always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I’m still like that. It’s the way I see the world.““There’s always the trick with anything what’s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?““Sometimes I’ll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I’ll get maybe seven rows out and I’m out of synch, I’m a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.““I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings – every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn’t be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey."“I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.”