Quote

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

Corey Taylor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Corey Taylor
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 8
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Vocalist
Writer
Des Moines
Iowa
Corey Todd Taylor
Hard
Punk
Riffs
Good
Melody
Metallica
Biggest
Fanatic
Ears
Fanatics
Influence
Metal
Energy
Metals
Become
Influences
Everything
Pulled

More quotes by Corey Taylor

Image
You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you'll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it's like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn't, really.
Corey Taylor
Image
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.
Corey Taylor
Image
As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.
Corey Taylor
Image
But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.
Corey Taylor
Image
If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.
Corey Taylor
Image
Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.
Corey Taylor
Image
I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.
Corey Taylor
Image
I want karma to drive stakes into the dark hearts that keep me bitter.
Corey Taylor
Image
I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.
Corey Taylor
Image
I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.
Corey Taylor
Image
Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.
Corey Taylor
Image
Twitter. Honestly, that's all I really have to say to explain insanity.
Corey Taylor
Image
The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.
Corey Taylor
Image
RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular.
Corey Taylor
Image
I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.
Corey Taylor
Image
Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.
Corey Taylor
Image
I'm living on coffee, cigarettes and hospitality food. My bags and things are all over this hotel room in Dallas, but the scene could easily be in London, Paris, New York of LA. My eyes are burning, my knees hurt and I hate to say it, but a certain and vital part of my nether region is beginning to smell like peanut butter. Welcome to life on tour.
Corey Taylor
Image
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.'
Corey Taylor
Image
I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism that's always stuck with me.
Corey Taylor
Image
We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.
Corey Taylor