Scott Weiland Quotes
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Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.
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When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose.
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It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.
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It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
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I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
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To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.
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I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
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I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
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Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.
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I've changed the way I look at things. When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, "This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records." I have fallen into that trap before.
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When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.
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Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
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Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
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Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
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I sang in choir as a kid.
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Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.
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As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
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Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.
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I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.
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To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.
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Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
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It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.
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I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.
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I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.