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I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: About Approach Books Ear Either Finding Gems Heard Keeps Look Love Music Never New New Stuff Old Perks Same Spin Stuff Take Trying Wheels Write You Your

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I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Down Else Fact Follow Following Head Just Just Kind Kind Know Listen Lucky Me Mean Music Nine Out Piece Saying Somebody Something Take Takes Tap Times Try Where Write Written You I Can

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If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: About Another Basically Care Crap Down Enough Everybody Feels Forced Fries Gonna Hamburger Here Making Mcdonald Mean Music Needs Nobody Nothing Now Overwhelmed Piece Right Sit Something Than Then Too Try Two Where World Worse Write Years You

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Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Art Bands Celebration Commercial Distraction Go Like Live Lost Lot Older Out People Play Playing See Treat Way You

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To be honest, and this comes out of left field, but I would love to do something with Jay-Z or Eminem. I have no limitations when it comes to the stuff I want to do musically. So to be able to do something like that I think would be really, really cool.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Able Cool Eminem Field Honest Jay-Z Left Like Limitations Love Musically Out Really Something Stuff Think To Be Honest Want Would I Think

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With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Able Around Awhile Been Book Carrying Deadly Depression Done Emotion Even Go Guilt Involved Let Go Lot Once Personal Realize Really Seven Sins Stuff Writing

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I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Because Down Entire Fluid Get Gets Guy Lyrics Months Morning Recorded Sheet Six Something Thoughts Three Up You

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When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Almost Always Dark Different Easily Flips Go Head Like Lot More Place Searching Sinister Song Soul Sour Stone Switch Take Tone Way Working Written I Can

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People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Beats How Huge Huge Influence Hunter Influence Just Me People Said Saying Thompson Were

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I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Always Antagonism Grab Here Irony Like Line Lines Me Smells Songs Spirit Stuck Teen Those Towards Ultimate Us You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 8th, 1973

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