Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Joshua Homme

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Joshua Homme.

Last updated on November 10, 2024.

Joshua Michael Homme is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the founder, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, which he formed in 1996 and in which he sings lead vocals and plays guitar, as well as occasionally playing bass and drums. He also co-founded Eagles of Death Metal in 1998, playing drums and bass for their studio recordings and occasionally performing live with them.

American - Musician | Born: May 17, 1973

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Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.

Joshua Homme

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

Joshua Homme

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

Joshua Homme

A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.

Joshua Homme

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

Joshua Homme

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

Joshua Homme

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

Joshua Homme

Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.

Joshua Homme

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

Joshua Homme

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place.

Joshua Homme

The beauty's in the scars.

Joshua Homme

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Joshua Homme

The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a home-made affair that's just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries .

Joshua Homme

Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.

Joshua Homme

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

Joshua Homme

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

Joshua Homme

I'm not a militant, drug-taking freak! I'm sensitive.

Joshua Homme

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

Joshua Homme