Jim Root Quotes

Jim Root

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 2, 1971

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

Jim Root

That's why I don't necessarily enjoy it when bands cover other songs. You'll never recreate what has been done, especially if it's something that's legendary and classic.

Jim Root

It became apparent to me near the end of the album cycle for 'House Of Gold & Bones' that it had basically run its course. But the band kept pushing for more dates, and I was just, like, 'It's time to stop!'

Jim Root

There is a solo on 'Spiders,' albeit a kind of a non-traditional solo, but that's what I love.

Jim Root

I was spreading myself too thin. That was making me unhappy and that, in turn, was making the rest of Stone Sour unhappy.

Jim Root

You can't evaluate your situation when you're in a band, not really.

Jim Root

I can't be on tour constantly if I really want to be creative.

Jim Root

It's the best thing, me leaving Stone Sour.

Jim Root

I like to improvise so much live because I get bored playing the same thing over again. It's like the kid at school that already knows all the answers so doodles all over the paper. I do that a lot live.

Jim Root

So many bands play to tracks - what's the point in coming to see them live if they're playing to a CD?

Jim Root

All my racks are the same between Slipknot and Stone Sour. The only thing I'll do is switch out pedals in the GCX system. But it's the same heads, same wireless, same GCX.

Jim Root

I don't seek out knowledge when it comes to guitar playing; I like to let it happen naturally.

Jim Root

My approach in 1999 was basically to play what I had, that was all I could do. At the time I was broke. I think I only had one guitar, a flametop green Jackson and I had these DC-10 Mesa Boogie heads. I think I had a cheap Shure wireless.

Jim Root

Every time we go into the studio and use a different engineer or producer I try to look, listen and learn their approach. That has helped with the gear I look for to use live and in the studio.

Jim Root

Every experience you have in life can be applied to different things.

Jim Root

As you're touring there are so many layers to a live show, it has always been important for me to have a guitar that I can use live and in the studio.

Jim Root

I don't like to really dive too deep into politics.

Jim Root

We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.

Jim Root

One of the downfalls of not being in Stone Sour was I sat at home for two and a half years, and I hadn't ever done that since we started touring in 1999. I was really nervous and freaked out.

Jim Root

You spend 20 years doing something and when you're not doing it, it's hard to figure out what it is you're made of. Am I the guitarist in Slipknot and that is it, or do I have more dimensions than that?

Jim Root