Corey Taylor Quotes
With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
-
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
-
I think there's no greater healing power than music.
-
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
-
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
-
My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
-
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
-
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
-
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
-
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
-
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
-
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
-
Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
-
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
-
One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
-
If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
-
People may soon lose interest in me. I want to make sure I've done everything I can for my family when that time comes.
-
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'
-
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.
-
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.
-
I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.
-
With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.
