Josh Homme Quotes
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I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.
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I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.
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The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a home-made affair that's just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries.
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I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.
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Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
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I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.
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I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.
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I don't mind saying what's on my mind.
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I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.
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I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.
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I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.
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I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.
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I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.
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I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.
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I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.
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Records don't have to be perfect.
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Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.
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I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.
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Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.
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Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.
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Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
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I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.
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You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?
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I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.