Jim Root Quotes

Jim Root

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 2, 1971

I'd rather be creative and be artistic and be able to play intricate music that moves and really takes you on a journey.

Jim Root

With 'Iowa,' if you ask me, we really passed up a lot of things that we could have done with the two auxiliary drummers. I mean they hardly touched their drums on that album.

Jim Root

Some of the guys in Stone Sour, I think they just want to be a radio band and write strictly for radio and try to be more of a poppy rock band. And that's not really what I'm into.

Jim Root

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.

Jim Root

I want to see the guitar in a non-linear sense that encompasses tones, arrangements, songwriting, audio production, and everything else - you have to do it all.

Jim Root

I can never look at anything I do subjectively - whether it's a Stone Sour record or a Slipknot record, I can never really have my own opinion of it, 'cos in my opinion it's all crap.

Jim Root

I'll never be able to listen to anything we've done like someone who's just picked it up for the first time.

Jim Root

Rick Rubin was able to do things that Dave Fortman could never do. I'm not trying to take anything away from Dave Fortman as a producer. He's extremely talented. He wasn't able to get nine people together on the same page and, to me, that's the most important thing in making a Slipknot record.

Jim Root

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

Jim Root

Slipknot's the kind of band you need to step away from and kind of take a break from and let it heal, so to speak.

Jim Root

Well, basically Corey and I were in Stone Sour before we joined Slipknot.

Jim Root

People that like Slipknot that could care less about Stone Sour, people that like Stone Sour that don't know a lot of Slipknot.

Jim Root

I think rock 'n' roll, in a way, has been dead for a long time.

Jim Root

There's such an energy and emotion to rock music, which is a lot of the reason I go back to '60s and '70s bands and look at some of the fire they had.

Jim Root

You always have to be on top of your game, because you never know what is going to happen.

Jim Root

I've seen the Tortilla Guy hashtag when I'm going through my Instagram and all of that and I think it's pretty funny. It's weird because I've met this guy before, I know who he is, but he's really kind of elusive, even around our camp. I've had some people tell me, 'Don't tell us who he is. We're having fun trying to figure it out!'

Jim Root

To have a No. 1 with 130,000 copies sold is, you know, I remember when we first started selling records, in order to have a No. 1, you'd have to sell at least a half a million if not more, for the rock side of things.

Jim Root

You don't even know are we going to have a career? Are we going to be able to sell records? Are we going to have a label?

Jim Root

I'm just kind of more, like, I'm gonna take every day as it comes and that's gonna be good enough for me.

Jim Root

I'm always living at least a year ahead of where I'm really at, and that can really lead you to some negative thoughts and some bad vibes.

Jim Root