Quotes About Music

As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off.

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh!

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do?

A great song is the reason you want to jump out of your bed in the morning.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I'd love to major in Music. I love what I do, but I want to really understand it, more in depth.

I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.