Top 100 Nikki Sixx Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It’s funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, “Halloween isn’t supposed to be happy, dad, it’s supposed to be dark. ” No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household!”

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52. “I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There’s nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.”

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53. “Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.”

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54. “If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I’d do it. I want the creativity, and I don’t give a f – k about the snare sound.”

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55. “I look back at things I said when I was younger – it was bulls – t. You do what you have to do to go where you have to go, but I look back and I don’t believe what that guy was saying.”

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56. “Life is full of so many false starts and abrupt finishes and unexpected detours. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something new comes along and rips the rug out from under you.”

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57. “Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That’s not me. No more.”

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58. “People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.”

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59. “I’ve got five kids and I’m married, Tommy’s got two kids and he’s been married, Vince just got married again, Mick’s out of a relationship, Tommy’s single as well. We’ve done a lot in our life, we’ve covered a lot of miles.”

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60. “If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we’d just be cracking jokes. It’s like Beavis and Butthead.”

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61. “When I photograph someone, I want to shoot the subject and get them out of my studio so I can play with the photos and do all the stuff I want.”

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62. “I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.”

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63. “A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that’s what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.”

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64. “I love Starbucks. Maybe thats a bit sad. But I definitely need my caffeine. Its what gets me out of bed in the morning.”

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65. “I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.”

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66. “Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.”

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67. “Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.”

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68. “Life was full of surprises, with too many bruises and not enough Band-Aids.”

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69. “What’s the best angle to cut someone’s throat? Well, usually from behind. That’s usually how it works.”

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70. “I think anything thats creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that Im going through in my life. If youre going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, its a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.”

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71. “I’ve got my fingers in many pies and I’m very excited about creating stuff and watching it blossom and bloom and harvest it and get on with the next thing.”

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72. “We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that’s associated with us.”

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73. “When I’m onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see – the lights, the pyro, the band.”

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74. “Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.”

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75. “I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.”

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76. “I’m able to make decisions even in the face of adversity.”

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77. “I don’t like to write music by myself anymore. It’s boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.”

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78. “Meanwhile, my experience has shown me that beneath the darkest of visages usually gleams the softest of hearts.”

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79. “What’s exciting about being an artist, still, and what I’m really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don’t care how many lines I have on my face – I’ll keep doing it!”

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80. “There’s a pattern when tours start – a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There’s a pattern of going to jail. There’s a pattern of passion for music.”

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81. “The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That’s why they have a producer and engineer – to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.”

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82. “I had to find the courage to turn my life around.”

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83. “Creativity in its purest form is when you’re willing to stand erect, eyes slammed shut, and let yourself fall.”

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84. “Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.”

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85. “Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.”

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86. “There’s nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.”

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87. “Some cats, Iggy Pop, they’re going to always have that hunger.”

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88. “I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I’m trying to listen!”

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89. “It’s about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.”

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90. “The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.”

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91. “When I’m onstage, I’m more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.”

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92. “I’ll play anyone in Uno and crush them.”

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93. “Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It’s not what the labels want.”

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94. “We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.”

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95. “We were telling everybody we weren’t getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.”

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96. “It’s physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.”

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97. “The industry is a menace to artists.”

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98. “Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.”

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99. “If your album sells, that’s cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we’re really about-which is a live rock and roll band.”

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100. “Anybody I’m in a band with can do what they do better than me. I’m a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table – producing, songwriting, orchestrating – and I can look at the other guys and say, “He’s got that, he’s got this, and I have this.” It’s a team thing.”

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