Wayne Static Quotes

Wayne Static

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 4, 1965

I can't afford another Camaro.

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The studio can be quite tedious.

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My mom is about 60 years old and she loves our music because she can bounce around to it.

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I remember when we were mixing our record and our manager was in there going, 'You guys need to sing more, so it can be on the radio.' And we were like 'What? We're never going to get played on the radio. Who cares? What are you talking about?'

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I feel like my whole life I've been searching for what I want to do, searching for my identity as a musician and a songwriter, and my band's identity.

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I hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we're pushing ourselves to try new things and experiment in our writing approach.

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I'm very picky about who we tour with.

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I like playing Michigan.

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For some reason, I don't spend enough time getting to see my family because I'm always touring or working or whatnot.

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It's been a long time since I lived in Michigan, but I did grow up there for 18 to 20 years of my life. It does feel my home state.

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I can play whatever I want and play whatever the fans want to hear. I don't have to be like a salesperson up there talking about my CD through the whole show.

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We can't seem to put out an album without any drama.

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All of our records seem to capture a certain period of time for us.

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Listening to Ozzy Osbourne at full blast always made me feel a little bit better. It made me feel like I wasn't alone.

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I developed a really bad hernia. I had to cancel the tour and go have surgery.

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When I'm in a bad mood, I feel better listening to someone else who sounds like they're in a bad mood. That was especially true when I was a kid, and I was mad at my mom or dad for whatever reason.

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Being married has not affected my career at all other than just making me happier to be on the road.

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I think our first record was a fluke, really. The fact that it went platinum and all that, it was all due to one video and the timing being just right.

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For many records, everyone was like, 'Oh, this next record is going to be their last, blah, blah, blah.' But here we are on our sixth full-length studio album and we debut at No. 16. It's obvious we're not going anywhere.

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Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they're either gone now, or they got just mega huge, like System of a Down or Incubus.

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