Joshua Homme quotes
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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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“I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.”
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“I think people listen to whatever they think is good.”
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“Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.”
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“Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.”
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“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.”
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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 think people get fixated on the example of an idea.”
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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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“A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.”
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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 know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.”
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“If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.”
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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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“Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.”
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“I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.”
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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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“You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?”
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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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“I'm not so much of a joiner.”
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“Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.”
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“All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.”
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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'm not politically correct; I never said I was.”
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“I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.”
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“Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.”
-- Joshua HommeSource : "Queens of the Stone Age enlist army of skeletons for 'witch'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 11, 2005.
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