Scott Weiland Quotes
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It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.
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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.
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I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.
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I sang in choir as a kid.
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Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
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As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
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I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.
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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.
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The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
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There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.
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You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.
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When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.
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I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.
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It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that
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It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.
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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.
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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.
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Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
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It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.
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Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.
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When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.
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I'm going to take care of myself because that's what I need to take care of.
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Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
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I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
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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.
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Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.
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I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
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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.
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Sing the song or keep it inside.
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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.
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