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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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Corey Taylor
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 8
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Corey Todd Taylor
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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.
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You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.
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I sin like crazy, but I protect my people.
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If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.
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Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.
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I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.
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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.
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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 still have night terrors about things happening to my son. The worst things cross your mind when you care so much. I keep them at bay as best I can, and it's a struggle for me not to just do everything for him.
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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.
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I think of how and where all the horrible people I've come across in my life ended up, and I smile.
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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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I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.
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The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.
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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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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.
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I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.
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Mistakes you can learn from sins stay with you forever.
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When I was a kid, I had THE biggest crush on Helen Reddy. I mean like for REAL crush - like 'spend some time in the bathroom thinking about her' crush. I blme Pete's Dragon. There she was - flushed, singing, clas in a tight wet plaid shirt. Judas Priest she was fabulous.
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I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
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