Homme Quotes

God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.) ~ Charles De Leusse

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. ~ Josh Homme

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

I think more people need to make out. ~ Josh Homme

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. ~ Josh Homme

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. ~ Josh Homme

The last time I saw Collin was in 1917, at the foot of Mort-Homme.

Before the great slaughter, Collin'd been an avid angler. On that day, he was standing at the hole, watching maggots swarm among blow flies on two boys that we couldn't retrieve for burial without putting our own lives at risk.

And there, at the loop hole, he thought of his bamboo rods, his flies and the new reel he hadn't even tried out yet.

Collin was imaging himself on the riverbank, wine cooling in the current his stash of worms in a little metal box and a maggot on his hook, writhing like… Holy shit. Were the corpses getting to him?

Collin. The poor guy didn't even have time to sort out his thoughts.

In that split second, he was turned into a slab of bloody meat. A white hot hook drilled right through him and churned through his guts, which spilled out of a hole in his belly.

He was cleared out of the first aid station. The major did triage. Stomach wounds weren't worth the trouble. There were all going to die anyway, and besides, he wasn't equipped to deal with them.

Behind the aid station, next to a pile of wood crosses, there was a heap of body parts and shapeless, oozing human debris laid out on stretchers, stirred only be passing rats and clusters of large white maggots.

But on their last run, the stretcher bearers carried him out after all… Old Collin was still alive.

From the aid station to the ambu ~ Jacques Tardi

There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar. ~ Carine Roitfeld

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

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

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it. ~ Joshua Homme

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language. ~ Joshua Homme

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

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

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. ~ Josh Homme

I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own. ~ Orlan

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down. ~ Joshua Homme

People don't want their actors acting like musicians. ~ Josh Homme

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.] ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The kind aunt with whom I lived, herself the purest of beings, always told me that there was nothing she so desired for me as that I should have relations with a married woman: 'Rien ne forme un juene homme, comme une liaison avec une femme comme il faut'.{1} ~ Leo Tolstoy

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.' ~ Josh Homme

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band. ~ Joshua Homme

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with. ~ Joshua Homme

The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...) ~ Charles De Leusse

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. ~ Josh Homme

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

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

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

Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority. ~ John Knox

The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a home-made affair that's just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries . ~ Joshua Homme

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick ... maker. ~ Joshua Homme

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

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

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

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

I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive. ~ Joshua Homme

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. ~ Josh Homme

Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time. ~ Joshua Homme

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

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. ~ Josh Homme

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

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames. ~ Joshua Homme

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

I don't mind saying what's on my mind. ~ Josh Homme

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

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

The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole
besides being an homme d'action [man of action]
that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality ... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London ... ~ Karl Marx

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. ~ Josh Homme

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music. ~ Joshua Homme

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

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

In everyday life, I'm pretty much T-shirt and jeans guy - a soft LnA shirt, cool APC jeans, Nikes or Jordans. If I'm going to an event I like to wear a suit, sometimes a three-piece. I'm into brands like Simon Spurr - I think he makes great suits - and Dior Homme. ~ Bryan Greenberg

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. ~ Josh Homme

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. ~ Josh Homme

Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e chappe me me a' l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human. ~ Stephanie Crayencour

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. ~ Josh Homme

Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy for it.

(Les hommes sont tous les mêmes. L'étrangeté leur déplaît, d'homme à homme, et les blesse ; mais si l'étrangeté porte des jupes, ils en raffolent.) ~ Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

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

I like when people take chances. ~ Josh Homme

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was. ~ Josh Homme

When you expect anything from music, you expect too much. ~ Josh Homme

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

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

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. ~ Josh Homme

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? ~ Josh Homme

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. ~ Josh Homme

They, OLDEFO (Old Established Forces), carry out l'exploitation de l'homme par 'homme (the exploitation of man by man). Do not let them live, so that there's no colonialism anymore in the world. ~ Sukarno

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk. ~ Josh Homme

Ask yourself
Will i burn in Hell?
Then write it down
and cast it in the well
There they are
The mob it cries for blood
To twist the tale
Into fore wood
Fan the flames
With a little lie
Then turn your cheek
Until the fire dies
The skin it peels
Like the truth, away
What it was
I will never say... ~ Joshua Homme

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. ~ Josh Homme

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. ~ Josh Homme

The critics often invent authors; they select two dissimilar works - the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say - attribute them to the same writer and then determine most scrupulously the psychology of this interesting homme de lettres ... ~ Jorge Luis Borges

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. ~ Josh Homme

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