Quotes by Jim Root - Page 2

I was awkward in school. I didn't really fit in with any kind of crowd in school. I didn't have a lot of friends. But the friends I had were very close friends.
Jim Root /
Awkward
Close Friends
Crowd
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I want to see the guitar in a non-linear sense that encompasses tones, arrangements, songwriting, audio production, and everything else - you have to do it all.
Jim Root /
Arrangements
Audio
Songwriting
Everything Else
Tones
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I'm definitely a lot more reserved without the mask on. And with the mask on, all those inhibitions kinda go out the window. I can act like Keith Richards, I guess!
Jim Root /
Inhibitions
Mask
Reserved
Window
Act
Definitely
Guess
Richards
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I'm constantly writing, maybe a little more than other guys in the band. I find it a very therapeutic thing to do on the road, where you're estranged from your hobbies.
Jim Root /
Therapeutic
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Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?
Jim Root /
Hindsight
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That's why I don't necessarily enjoy it when bands cover other songs. You'll never recreate what has been done, especially if it's something that's legendary and classic.
Jim Root /
Legendary
Recreate
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All my racks are the same between Slipknot and Stone Sour. The only thing I'll do is switch out pedals in the GCX system. But it's the same heads, same wireless, same GCX.
Jim Root /
Sour
Wireless
Heads
Stone
Switch
The Only Thing
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I wanna buy vinyl and I want to listen to records on it. I want to put on 'Dark Side of the Moon' in the dining room while I'm eating pasta or whatever. You know what I mean.
Jim Root /
Dark Side
Dining
Moon
Pasta
Wanna
Dining Room
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With 'Iowa,' if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers. I mean they hardly touched their drums on that album.
Jim Root /
Iowa
Touched
Ask
Album
Done Me Things
Drummers
Hardly
Passed
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It's probably a lot cooler than wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Once I put on the mask, I don't even realize that it's there. They're molded off of our faces, so they fit really well.
Jim Root /
Faces
Jeans
Mask
Cooler
Molded
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Some of the guys in Stone Sour, I think they just want to be a radio band and write strictly for radio and try to be more of a poppy rock band. And that's not really what I'm into.
Jim Root /
Sour
Poppy
Strictly
Rock Band
Stone
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I can never look at anything I do subjectively - whether it's a Stone Sour record or a Slipknot record, I can never really have my own opinion of it, 'cos in my opinion it's all crap.
Jim Root /
Crap
My Own
Opinion
Sour
In My Opinion
Record
Stone
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One of the downfalls of not being in Stone Sour was I sat at home for two and a half years, and I hadn't ever done that since we started touring in 1999. I was really nervous and freaked out.
Jim Root /
Half
Nervous
Sat
Sour
Touring
Freaked
Half Years
Stone
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Every time we go into the studio and use a different engineer or producer I try to look, listen and learn their approach. That has helped with the gear I look for to use live and in the studio.
Jim Root /
Gear
Producer
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You know, 'Mad Max' and 'The Road Warrior' was part of my childhood, and that's why I'm so close to it. I remember seeing those movies at a drive-in theater with my parents when I was very young.
Jim Root /
Childhood
Mad
Max
Remember
Seeing
Theater
Warrior
Young
Close
Drive-In
Parents
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You spend 20 years doing something and when you're not doing it, it's hard to figure out what it is you're made of. Am I the guitarist in Slipknot and that is it, or do I have more dimensions than that?
Jim Root /
Dimensions
Guitarist
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I like to improvise so much live because I get bored playing the same thing over again. It's like the kid at school that already knows all the answers so doodles all over the paper. I do that a lot live.
Jim Root /
Answers
Bored
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It became apparent to me near the end of the album cycle for 'House Of Gold & Bones' that it had basically run its course. But the band kept pushing for more dates, and I was just, like, 'It's time to stop!'
Jim Root /
Band
Bones
Gold
House
Pushing
Album
Time Me Gold
Apparent
Basically
Became
Time Me End
Run
Course
Cycle
Dates
Near
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You know, unfortunately I'm only one person. I can't really be in two places at one time and the amount of focus that I need to put into Slipknot makes it really difficult for me to be on tour with Stone Sour.
Jim Root /
Amount
Difficult
Focus
One Time
Sour
Time Focus Me
Time Me Difficult
Unfortunately
Places
Stone
Tour
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With all the different guys in the band and all the different ideas of what's what, it's hard to get everybody on the same page sometimes. We are a very tight brotherhood, but we never know what we're going to do.
Jim Root /
Brotherhood
Different Ideas
Sometimes Never Know
Same Page
Tight
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To have a No. 1 with 130,000 copies sold is, you know, I remember when we first started selling records, in order to have a No. 1, you'd have to sell at least a half a million if not more, for the rock side of things.
Jim Root /
Copies
Remember When
Selling
Sold
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The thing that scares me about the way the music industry has changed so much is that I'm afraid that the record, the album, will disappear, and it'll go back to the way it was in the '50s where everything is single-based.
Jim Root /
Disappear
Music Industry
Music Me Way
Music Me Will
Scares
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Finding the right amp can be a process, especially when you're young and just starting out. When I was a kid, I had to rely on whatever I got for Christmas. Then my mom got me a Peavey VTM 120. I used that for a few years.
Jim Root /
Rely
Amp
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I'm extremely lucky to be doing what I'm doing right now and I work very hard at maintaining this career and living this dream that I'm living, but there's also a price to pay. I mean, we give a lot of ourselves and every day.
Jim Root /
Maintaining
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Well that's probably what'll end up happening: a load of really good musicians who can't afford to be in bands, who have to have day jobs, you know what I mean? And then that's when you start losing a lot of the live touring bands.
Jim Root /
Load
Good Day Start
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My approach in 1999 was basically to play what I had, that was all I could do. At the time I was broke. I think I only had one guitar, a flametop green Jackson and I had these DC-10 Mesa Boogie heads. I think I had a cheap Shure wireless.
Jim Root /
Approach
Boogie
Broke
Green
Wireless
Basically
Cheap
Heads
Jackson
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There's a lot for us to achieve and a lot more music to explore. I'm not saying we want to start doing experimental prog or something, where it turns into elevator music after a few records, but I don't think we've even scratched the surface.
Jim Root /
Elevator
Scratched
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We considered all sorts of names - everything from Tarantula Bomb to Superego to Section 8. Some of them were already taken, and some of them were kind of campy sounding. So we just decided to stick with Stone Sour. After all, what's in a name?
Jim Root /
Decided
Sour
Taken
Considered
Bomb
Stick
Section
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You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.
Jim Root /
Compare
Iowa
Album
Time People Never
Anymore
Heaviest
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It's easy to get a good amp that might not be the right amp for you. When you go to a music store, really turn the amps on and turn 'em up - hopefully they'll let you - and work through the sounds. This is an important decision, so take your time and be methodical.
Jim Root /
Methodical
Time Work Good
Amp
Work Time Good
Important Decision
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In a nine-piece-band is one guy gonna call up eight guys and have a 45-minute discussion about every decision? No. So things are a lot more democratic in Stone Sour. Plus, we're closer and it's a lot easier to communicate. In Slipknot that's the big problem - communication.
Jim Root /
Communication
Communicate
Discussion
Plus
Sour
Big Problem
Closer
Stone
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As a person, I think you're always kind of searching for something or going through a hardship, whether it's your parents splitting up or anything like that. I mean, my parents stuck together, for whatever reason, until I was about 23, and then they decided to call it quits.
Jim Root /
Hardship
Splitting
Quits
Searching
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The culture of buying an album on CD or vinyl has gone out of the window. A lot of kids don't really understand that, they just hop onto Limewire, or find a BitTorrent, or even just go onto iTunes if they're going to pay for something. It's just right there, there's no searching about.
Jim Root /
Buying
Itunes
Window
Cd
Hop
Onto
Searching
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Rick Rubin was able to do things that Dave Fortman could never do. I'm not trying to take anything away from Dave Fortman as a producer. He's extremely talented. He wasn't able to get nine people together on the same page and, to me, that's the most important thing in making a Slipknot record.
Jim Root /
Dave
Nine
Together Me People
Talented
Extremely
Important Thing
Record
Most Important Thing
Producer
Page
Rick
Same Page
The Most Important
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In my opinion, I would still like to go into a studio - because I love the environment of being in a studio - and record a great album beginning to end, but then maybe not release it as an album. Maybe put singles out there, put songs out there - either give some away or release some the traditional way.
Jim Root /
Release
Singles
In My Opinion
Traditional Way
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I'll admit that I don't have a lot of discipline when it comes to practicing. I'm not the type of guy who sits at home with a metronome and runs through scales and stuff like that. But I do go through phases when I'll be more diligent, and I notice that warming up and working on some patterns will make my playing cleaner.
Jim Root /
Diligent
Discipline
Patterns
Phases
Scales
Type
Admit
Cleaner
Notice
Runs
Warming
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I love Stone Sour. I love the music that we created. and it was a fun ride. But if I'm going to sacrifice all of my free time and my life for something, it has to be something that I a thousand-percent believe in, and something where I have a thousand-percent communication with everyone involved. And that something is Slipknot.
Jim Root /
Communication
Free Time
Sacrifice
Sour
Life Love Time
Ride
Stone
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I've seen the Tortilla Guy hashtag when I'm going through my Instagram and all of that and I think it's pretty funny. It's weird because I've met this guy before, I know who he is, but he's really kind of elusive, even around our camp. I've had some people tell me, 'Don't tell us who he is. We're having fun trying to figure it out!'
Jim Root /
Elusive
Having Fun
Funny Me Fun
Funny Me Weird
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