Quotes by Corey Taylor

About Corey Taylor:

Corey Todd Taylor is an American musician, author, and actor, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of Slipknot and Stone Sour.
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You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

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I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream,...

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As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.

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People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, ...

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I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hunter S. Thompson and Quentin Tarantino to 'The Dark Knight' and 'Halloween'. Just show me something that doesn't suck, and I'm happy.

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There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

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Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

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Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

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With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to ...

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People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

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I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally under...

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The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

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I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

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As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.

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The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

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When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.

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I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really ope...

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A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

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I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

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Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.

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Author Bio

  • NameCorey Taylor
  • DescriptionAmerican heavy metal singer
  • BornDecember 8, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Musician