Josh Homme Quotes

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.

I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

The first time Kyuss was about to get signed, they're like, 'We'd like to sign you!' and we just said, 'No! Forget it!' because we thought people were always trying to invade everything.

I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

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

By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

I like when people take chances.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.

I think more people need to make out.

I'm a fairly upbeat and happy guy, you know? I don't like people that feel sorry for themselves, and I traditionally stay away from people like that.

You wanna be there for everybody, but it's just not possible.

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

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about ... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that ... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

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

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. You know what I mean?

The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes' ... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.

I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people.

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.

Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

I don't mind saying what's on my mind.

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.