Scott Weiland Quotes

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Scott Weiland

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 27, 1967

My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music.

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A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

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Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.

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Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

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Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you.

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Every single thing I've done has made me who I am today. The only thing I would take back is hurting the people that I love, and the people who I love have already read my lyrics and heard my apologies. But the rest of the world, I don't need to apologize to them. My life doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the world.

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Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

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I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.

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I really didn't get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listening to 'Starman' and thinking it sounded like it was a song for kids, like a lullaby. The Thin White Duke is my favorite look that he created.

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My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don't get a chance to do that as much as I'd like. I don't live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don't get to do that much, either.

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I had always sung in choirs. Even when it was something to be laughed at or made fun of, you know, in school. And I was always the kid who was picked at the Christmas concert to sing the solo, you know, while the other kids snickered in the front few rows.

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I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

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Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s.

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When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose.

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I'm going to take care of myself because that's what I need to take care of.

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I'm one of the luckiest people in the world that I was able to do what I fell in love with and be able to make a living doing it.

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The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

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Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

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I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

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The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter.

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