Joshua Homme famous quotes

04-05-2025

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.
-- Joshua Homme

#Music #Atm #Want
I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.
-- Joshua Homme

#Thinking #Labels #Want
I like when people take chances.
-- Joshua Homme

#People #Chance #Take A Chance
I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.
-- Joshua Homme

#Feet #Sidewalk
I think people listen to whatever they think is good.
-- Joshua Homme

#Thinking #People
Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
-- Joshua Homme

#Musician #Lucky #Enough
Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.
-- Joshua Homme

#Girl #Independent #Sound
I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.
-- Joshua Homme

#Kids #Littles #Little Kid
I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.
-- Joshua Homme

#Thinking #Play #Too Late
I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.
-- Joshua Homme

#Thinking #Ideas #People
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.
-- Joshua Homme

#Thinking #Vacation #Years
A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.
-- Joshua Homme

#Halloween #Affair #Homemade
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 .
-- Joshua Homme

#Queens #Halloween #Home
I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
-- Joshua Homme

#Art #Labels #Sake
If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.
-- Joshua Homme

#Trying #Different #Want
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.
-- Joshua Homme

#Years #Three #Desert
Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
-- Joshua Homme

#Couple #Inspiration #Trying
I don't mind saying what's on my mind.
-- Joshua Homme

#Mind
I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.
-- Joshua Homme

#Moving #Moving Forward #Should
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.
-- Joshua Homme

#Thinking #Sweaters #People
You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?
-- Joshua Homme

#Giving #Risk #Able
Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.
-- Joshua Homme

#Cereal #Talking #People
I'm not so much of a joiner.
-- Joshua Homme
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
-- Joshua Homme

#Fun #Guitar #Way
All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.
-- Joshua Homme

#Real #Care #Honest
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.
-- Joshua Homme

#Smile #Queens #Dark
I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.
-- Joshua Homme

#Said #Politically Correct
I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.
-- Joshua Homme

#Thinking #Trying #Figure Skating
I think more people need to make out.
-- Joshua Homme

#Thinking #People #Needs
Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.
-- Joshua Homme

#Fire #Flames #Play

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