Jim Root Quotes

Jim Root

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 2, 1971

I like to keep my world positive. There's enough negativity kicking around.

Jim Root

The masks, for us, are more of a way to present ourselves live, you know?

Jim Root

You know, unfortunately I'm only one person. I can't really be in two places at one time and the amount of focus that I need to put into Slipknot makes it really difficult for me to be on tour with Stone Sour.

Jim Root

I feel weird talking about it, because how can I, as the guitar player of Slipknot, sit here and say, 'Oh, I have trouble.' You know what I mean?

Jim Root

I'm just a dumb guitar player, man.

Jim Root

A&E eggnog, there's nothing like it anywhere on Earth. It's the best liquid ever made.

Jim Root

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

Jim Root

Music is like wine, it ages beautifully - and if you spend enough time you can just sit there and listen to it entirely differently.

Jim Root

No, I would never in a million years compare anything we've done to anything we've previously done. I don't believe in it - I think it's bad.

Jim Root

I'm definitely a lot more reserved without the mask on. And with the mask on, all those inhibitions kinda go out the window. I can act like Keith Richards, I guess!

Jim Root

Dave Fortman really helped me appreciate Rick Rubin as a producer.

Jim Root

In a nine-piece-band is one guy gonna call up eight guys and have a 45-minute discussion about every decision? No. So things are a lot more democratic in Stone Sour. Plus, we're closer and it's a lot easier to communicate. In Slipknot that's the big problem - communication.

Jim Root

Don't get me wrong - I'm still way into the metal, but I've been listening to different things like Radiohead, Portishead, Bjork, and Queens of the Stone Age.

Jim Root

I love Stone Sour. I love the music that we created. and it was a fun ride. But if I'm going to sacrifice all of my free time and my life for something, it has to be something that I a thousand-percent believe in, and something where I have a thousand-percent communication with everyone involved. And that something is Slipknot.

Jim Root

Well that's probably what'll end up happening: a load of really good musicians who can't afford to be in bands, who have to have day jobs, you know what I mean? And then that's when you start losing a lot of the live touring bands.

Jim Root

The culture of buying an album on CD or vinyl has gone out of the window. A lot of kids don't really understand that, they just hop onto Limewire, or find a BitTorrent, or even just go onto iTunes if they're going to pay for something. It's just right there, there's no searching about.

Jim Root

There are many different artforms that are just being lost because the whole digital revolution has homogenized everything, turned it all into Walmart.

Jim Root

You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.

Jim Root

Iowa,' for me, I hated doing that album - it wasn't a good experience for me.

Jim Root

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

Jim Root