Scott Weiland Quotes

“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.”

— Scott Weiland

“Sing the song, or keep it inside”

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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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“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.”

— Scott Weiland

“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.”

— Scott Weiland

“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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“It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.”

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“If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.”

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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.

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“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.”

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“I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.”

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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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“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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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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“It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.”

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“As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.”

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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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“For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.”

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I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids.

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“I feel lucky to be alive.”

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I still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible.

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“I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.”

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“I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.”

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“I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.”

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“I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.”

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“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.”

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“It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot.”

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“It's like, hey, some people cook for a living, and some people milk cows. I write songs.”

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“Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.”

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Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I.

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“The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.”

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There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.

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When I was around nine years old, I was a fan of Shaun Cassidy's first album.

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“You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.”

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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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“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.”

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“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.”

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I've seen guys on the street who look the part of a rock star just as much as any rock star. If you feel it and you believe it, then you can get away with it. Rock on!

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“My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don't get a chance to do that as much as I'd like. I don't live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don't get to do that much, either.”

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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.

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“When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all.”

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When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy.

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“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.'”

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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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“It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.”

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When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

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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 not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.”

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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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