A biography for Ted Nugenthasn’t been written yet.
“Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.”
“For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.”
“I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.”
“I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.”
“Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.”
“The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.”
“Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.”
“Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.”
“It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.”
“Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.”
“I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.”
“I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.”
“Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.”
“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.”
“I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.”
“The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.”
“Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.”
“Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.”
“I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.”
“Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.”