Josh Homme Quotes

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Dave (Catching) played lap steel, a little guitar, keys and did a lot of drinking.

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I THINK OF INTERSCOPE AND ALL THESE LABELS AS THE BIGGEST FUCKING IDIOTS ON THE PLANET. And print that in capitals, because they can't do anything to me.

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But I like to be a real man because I have a son and a daughter and they should know what that's like. It's OK to not be macho. But it's not OK to be a pussy.

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The rules were always there. There was always one rule; don't break the golden rule, which is if someone says that they love your music, so they love you and you're amazing; you're not amazing. You're not amazing. It's not you, they don't know you, you know? It's not that way. So don't believe that. I don't believe that about myself, and I don't believe when someone likes me too much or hates me too much. I don't believe they know what they're talking about.

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Risk nothing, get nothing. If you wanna be famous, then it's OK if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.

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But the truth is, I don't have ADD. I have OKHY: OK, hell yeah.

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And the fact of the matter is that everyone should play music because it's such a beautiful gift. It's my religion. But maybe not everyone should play it in front of me. It's okay to play music in your rocking chair or whatever.

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My years of reading P. T. Barnum is finally coming into play. [snaps fingers] This notion of saying nothing, of keeping a secret, and doing it in a way that's not elitist but that's like, You wanna come in here and hear? [whispers] We have a secret. That's all that I can tell you. But you're involved. You know?

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My favorite music is hooky, quirky, arty, dark, surprising, heavy, groovy, soft, emotional but not emo. It wears a sweater because it's cold, not because it's stylistically there.

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"Punk fusion"… "metal", "alternative"… "grindcore". What the hell is all that stuff?

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I think that provided us to do it this time, because it's like okay, we've cleared that air, you know, we're friends and we respect that he's the best rock drummer in the world, you know. You can be as good, but you're not better than Dave Grohl.

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I am not a perfectionist at all. I love failure. I love mistakes. I love the bizarre. I love characters. I love missing teeth. I love beauty because your eyes are off-center. And how can you notice that in the buzz of the city? So I like the emptiness.

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I think now is the best thing that you'll ever get, and that's all you'll ever get.

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... but I'm also a father, a husband and a raging alcoholic...

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Yeah, I can make all the tequila in a bottle disappear. It's a talent. Nothing comes easy and talent is something you get but, if you don't develop it, it becomes like an apple; you keep taking bites of it until it's gone. So you have to plant the seeds. Then you have the orchard. And then you have Jonestown.'

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Whenever someone says, 'We're all one,' I've always been like 'No we're not, and that's what's great, so stop saying that or everyone's gonna start believing you.' But yeah, as we all look at the same projection on the wall, we do become one, and I started to realize the horror of that. And I make no attempt to try to alter it from being that; my thing is more about trying to apply some principles of magic—how to walk between the raindrops—and take advantage of a situation like that, because it's the only choice you have.

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I'm also beyond pissed, as in not pissed, because I kinda figure they just don't know better by now. It's like when a dog shits in the house, you can hit 'em with a paper but they really don't know what the fuck happened. How can retarded kids know to not throw a Frisbee at the forehead of another retarded kid?

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It's like catching a fish, you know what I mean? It's the fish that's beautiful, not the fisherman. And I think whoever hasn't understood that attitude in Queens is not here any more. And if I ever think the fisherman's better than the fish, I hope someone fuckin' fires me too.

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Well, I come from a long, long line of smartasses. Smartass is allergic to dumbass. It's actually a physical allergy, as in you're repulsed by dumbasses.

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Music is never wrong. You might not like it, but it's never wrong. It's such a great way of explaining stuff.

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Music is the best way that I know to say the things that are difficult to say in English. Words get in the way sometimes.

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I get scared all the time. I try not to let it have any impact on the decision of whether to do it or not. I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you.

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In response to the question; "What are you going to tell a ten year old who wants to play guitar?":
For me that's easy; when you expect anything from music, you expect too much. So you play for yourself, you play to enjoy it and you make the most of it for you, period. You don't - I never thought I would be doing this now. I feel so lucky to be doing this now - I can't believe this is what I do all the time. I know I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world, but I just love it. And I hope that's the only reason I'm here, you know? Because I think - I honestly think that that's enough.

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