Joshua Homme: 47 Quotes by the Musician

Musician
born 1973
47 quotes

Joshua Homme, a musician (born 1973), is quoted 47 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Thinking, People, Trying and Play.

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I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.
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Feet

Sidewalk
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I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.
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Politically Correct

Said
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A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.
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Affair

Halloween

Homemade
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I think people listen to whatever they think is good.
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People

Thinking
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I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.
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Drug

Freak

Sensitive
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I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.
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Ideas

People

Thinking
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You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?
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Able

Giving

Risk
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Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
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Enough

Lucky

Musician
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I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.
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Play

Thinking

Too Late
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I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.
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Figure Skating

Thinking

Trying
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Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.
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Girl

Independent

Sound
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Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
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Fun

Guitar

Way
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After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.
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Helping

Language

Writing
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I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.
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Entitlement

Hate

Playing Music
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Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
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Couple

Inspiration

Trying
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Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.
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Fire

Flames

Play
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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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Moving

Moving Forward

Should
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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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Art

Labels

Sake
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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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Labels

Thinking

Want
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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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Care

Honest

Real
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Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.
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Sexy

Should
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It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.
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Fun

Real

World
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I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.
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Events

Selfish

Thinking
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I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.
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Relief

Thinking

Understanding
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I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.
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Gigs

Please

Strikes
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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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Different

Trying

Want
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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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Cereal

People

Talking
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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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Kids

Little Kid

Littles
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When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.
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Make You Think

Thinking

Trying
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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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Queens

Smile

Dark

Faces
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I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.
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Kids

Eight

Guitar
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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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Vacation

Shells

Thinking

Years
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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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Desert

Three

Years
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The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.
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Forever

Selfish

Song
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I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.
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Ideas

People

Writing
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I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.
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Dark

Depressing

Writing
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I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.
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Love You

Your Favorite
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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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Music

Atm

Want
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Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.
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Guitar

Play

Real
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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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People

Sweaters

Thinking
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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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Queens

Home

Cutting

Halloween
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