Top 33 Piper Quotes

Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: ‘Change you can believe in.’ What happened to him?

I’ve pinched things from people I look up to, of course, like Roddy Piper, and CM Punk, and Terry Funk, those guys who I love, so of course it’s going to happen.

I’ve called myself the Pied Piper, I’ve called myself the Weatherman, I’ve called myself Kellz, I’ve called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

That was the ultimate high, playing live. You feel like the Pied Piper, or a conductor, knowing how to take an audience up or bring them down.

I’ve got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series ‘Band Of Gold‘ but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film ‘Imagine Me & You,’ with Piper Perabo.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

In wrestling, if there is a legend, Roddy Piper is a legend, no doubt about it. Nobody was ever like he was.

Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she writes about it.

The ‘Damsels’ crew was low-budget, young people who were doing their first thing almost. A lot of it. It felt like Pied Piper or Rumpelstiltskin or whatever: it was me and people thirty years younger or more. But it was great; it was really fun.

I wrestled Roddy quite a few times when he was first coming up in the business. I would go to Canada and wrestle up in that area, and you would be involved with him, too. Piper’s a good guy.

Piper took me one step further in that it got my first real recording contract but the band just didn’t quite mature. It didn’t break things open, but it got me to the door.

I felt very lucky that I not only got to be on Piper’s Pit and work with Rowdy Roddy Piper who I feel is one of the best promo guys in the history of the company, but I also got to get interviewed by Mean Gene Okerlund who is another favorite from my childhood. I was a huge fan.

Without Roddy Piper, you can’t have an equal good. He was a great villain and so believable. He wasn’t playing a part ever.

When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I’ll go: ‘You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I’m so glad I didn’t.’ Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

‘Piper’s Pit’ was totally unscripted – everything just happened – thus, innovation was a challenging must to accomplish.

Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.

There’s a picture of me at 3 years old playing the baby rat in ‘The Pied Piper.’

Nobody was ever better than Roddy Piper was when it came to interviews. He didn’t pull no punches. He wasn’t afraid of nothin‘ or nobody. He was a trip, and he was good people, too. He was a good friend. A damn good friend.

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper’s landing, opposite another island.

The main reason I started The Katie Piper Foundation was because I had treatment abroad that I wanted other burns survivors in this country to have access to.

When I was 14, I was 5th in the world playing bagpipes – that’s how I got the name Roddy the Piper, and then, you know, eventually it just became ‘Roddy Piper.’

For anyone who’s not familiar with ‘Piper’s Pit,’ they need to know one thing – there’s absolutely no rules.

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who’s an uilleann piper.

I don’t want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.

Once I saw Roddy Piper I knew exactly what I was going to be doing when I grew up.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

I was always taught if you do something, face the piper. Try to make it right.

I couldn’t go out into the streets without a bunch of kids following me. I felt like the Pied Piper. Everyone calls me ‘Doctor Who‘ and I feel like I actually am him.

I owe a lot to Roddy Piper.

So many of us can recall growing up with Gene Okerlund as the voice of our childhoods while interviewing the likes of Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage, Sting, and others.

When you’re asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.