Corey Taylor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's amazing and sad what we have to do to survive sometimes.
-- Corey Taylor

#Sometimes
I started to find that music was something that really brought a lot of joy into my life, and it was sort of cool because I discovered that I had a gift for it, too. So the stuff I would listen to I could play along, I could sing along.
-- Corey Taylor

#Play #Joy #Stuff
The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.
-- Corey Taylor

#Like You #Feels
Now you've got people who don't really have the skills, because technology hides it, going out and putting these crappy singles out, and because that's all there really is, people basically eat it like hamburgers. It's become very, very commercialized. Which wouldn't bother me as much if people actually had talent. When I listen to something and the first thing I notice is that it's been turned into crap, I shut it off and throw it out the window of my car. Like it's the most offensive thing to me.
-- Corey Taylor

#Technology #Skills #Car
Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.
-- Corey Taylor

#Different #Remember #Scene
I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.
-- Corey Taylor

#Thinking #Lazy #Generations
When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.
-- Corey Taylor

#Moving #Paris #Four
I'm really proud of the fact that anywhere, at any time, I can make music. A lot of people can't do that.
-- Corey Taylor

#People #Proud #Facts
Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.
-- Corey Taylor
The way I make music is just a reflection of how I think music should be made. Where you sit in a studio, and you make music, and you use technology to your advantage, not to hide all the blaring mistakes.
-- Corey Taylor

#Mistake #Thinking #Reflection
Live your life, no matter what that life is.
-- Corey Taylor

#Live Your Life #Matter #Life Is
When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.
-- Corey Taylor

#Song #Character #Thinking
The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.
-- Corey Taylor

#Letting Go #Past #Two
You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.
-- Corey Taylor

#Passion #Thinking #Artist
If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.
-- Corey Taylor

#Memorable #Joy #Feelings
You have to get to the next level, or you're gonna get stuck where you are for the rest of your life.
-- Corey Taylor

#Next Level #Levels #Where You Are
Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.
-- Corey Taylor

#People #Good People #Things Happen
You have incredible lives ahead of you. You have incredible things that you can accomplish. If you feel that, you will have an amazing life. Do not let anything build a wall too high for you to get over. And I know that might seem very cliche, but I've had alot of friends who had hurt themselves. And when you're younger, a lot of that stuff is so temporary. You can get through it. You're stronger than you think. You'll ALWAYS be stronger than you think. Feel with your heart and do what you want.
-- Corey Taylor

#Hurt #Wall #Heart
You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.
-- Corey Taylor

#Hurt #People #Care
Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.
-- Corey Taylor

#Hurt #People #Matter
Take one more deep breath, savor it, and plunge forward without thinking. Do not allow yourself hesitation. Do not allow yourself a moment of doubt. Follow your instincts and go where you never would have considered possible.
-- Corey Taylor

#Thinking #Doubt #Moments
I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
-- Corey Taylor

#Kings #Growing Up #Reading
Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.
-- Corey Taylor

#Mean
The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.
-- Corey Taylor

#Long #Personality #Fans
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
-- Corey Taylor

#People #Hunters #Influence
I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.
-- Corey Taylor

#Real #Writing #Expression
Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.
-- Corey Taylor

#People #Fans #Metals
The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.
-- Corey Taylor

#People #Way
Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.
-- Corey Taylor

#Light #Darkness #Stones
Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.
-- Corey Taylor

#Superhero #My Favorite #All Time

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