The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Josh Homme

Categorized in : You Me Yourself Music

It was beautiful, were there tragic stories? Yeah, from everyone, but the gathering was not focused on that.

top-news

I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle.

think you jungle chance

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

good me music time

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that... by Josh Homme

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

forward things go like

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

real-man man time men

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk. by Josh Homme

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

keep like sidewalk feet

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fu... by Josh Homme

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

me guitar fun way

I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

good myself work people

The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.

shoes guitar experience blue

I think you can separate yourself from your fears. You know what you should do, and it's just scary to do it. But I'd hate to let the fact that I'm scared to do it make me not do it. It ends up defining you. Because the moves you make are then based on what you don't want to do.

yourself me you hate

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

yourself you music age

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring o... by Josh Homme

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

really cereal boring breakfast

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

bad kid always music

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.

back think you vacation

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

best you trust daughter

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

joke always uncomfortable people

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that sta... by Josh Homme

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

itself words only music

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one woul... by Josh Homme

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

expect free like know

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the coll... by Josh Homme

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

guess point where vinyl

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, b... by Josh Homme

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

some know music art