Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Weiland
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Scott Weiland.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Sing the song or keep it inside.
When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.
I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.
I'm going to take care of myself because that's what I need to take care of.
As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.
For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.
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.
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.'
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.
It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
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.
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.
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.
The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
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.
Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.
Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.
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.
Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.
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.
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.
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.
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.
Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.
To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.
I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.
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.
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.'
It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.
I sang in choir as a kid.
Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you.
There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.
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.
Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.
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.
It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.
There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.
Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.
When I was around nine years old, I was a fan of Shaun Cassidy's first album.
My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music.
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.
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.
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.
I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.
I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
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.
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.
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