Josh Homme Quotes

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 really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

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• When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.

  

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• I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

  

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• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

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• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  

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• Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

  

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• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

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• When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

  

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• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

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• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

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• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  

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• You can grow apart from people very quickly.

  

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• O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

  

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• I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.

  

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• We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.

  

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• If you want to be loved, be lovable.

  

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• I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

  

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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.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Wife
  • Guitar
  • Drums