Joshua Homme Quotes

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• The beauty's in the scars.

  Joshua Homme

  Scar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Joshua Homme

  Trying, Different, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joshua Homme

  Musician, Lucky, Enough

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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

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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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.

  Joshua Homme

  Writing, Ideas, People

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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• I think more people need to make out.

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  Thinking, People, Needs

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

  Joshua Homme

  Sexy, Should

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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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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  Thinking, Understanding, Relief

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

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  Thinking, People

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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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  Thinking, Sweaters, People

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

  Joshua Homme

  Selfish, Thinking, Events

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Joshua Homme

  Drug, Freak, Sensitive

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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, Halloween, Home

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

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  Hate, Playing Music, Entitlement

  "Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with David Raposa, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2005.

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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.

  Joshua Homme

  Love You, Your Favorite

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Joshua Homme

  Fire, Flames, Play

  "Queens of the Stone Age enlist army of skeletons for 'witch'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 11, 2005.

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

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

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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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  Thinking, Labels, Want

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• I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

  Joshua Homme

  Feet, Sidewalk

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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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  Real, Guitar, Play

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

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  Giving, Risk, Able

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

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, Play, Too Late

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