Quotes by Fred Durst

About Fred Durst:

William Frederick "Fred" Durst is an American musician and film director from Jacksonville, Florida. He spent his formative years playing in a number of local bands in Jacksonville, Florida while mowing lawns and working as a tattoo artist for financial support. Durst is best known as the vocalist of the multi-platinum nu metal band Limp Bizkit, formed in 1994, with whom he has released six studio albums.
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Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

Fred Durst

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guy...

Fred Durst

Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.

Fred Durst

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

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For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting th...

Fred Durst

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

Fred Durst

Prague is a dark place.

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There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.

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I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

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I am not a hater.

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Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

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I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Fred Durst

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

Fred Durst

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

Fred Durst

I'm in touch with the social networks and stuff.

Fred Durst

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

Fred Durst

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

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I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

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Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

Fred Durst

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

Fred Durst

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing...

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Author Bio

  • NameFred Durst
  • Descriptionsinger of the band Limp Bizkit
  • BornAugust 20, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Film Director; Rapper; Musician