Scott Weiland Quotes

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Scott Weiland

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 27, 1967

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

Scott Weiland

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

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Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

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When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

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You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.

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There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

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But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

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I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

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If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.

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Any time you're stepping out on a limb as an artist, it's scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you're reaching a lot of people, the masses, it's easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you're making a lot of money and you know there's a formula, it's easy to stay in that rut.

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There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance.

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Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

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There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.

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When I was around nine years old, I was a fan of Shaun Cassidy's first album.

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Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'

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Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of their biggest hits. But that's something for the lawyers to figure out.

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I really have paid no attention to social media. It's never been something that I've done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what's going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous.

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People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

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Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.

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Who you are as a person has to do with what you think and how you feel. It has to do with how you love and how you care for people.

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