Top 100 Corey Taylor Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.”

— Corey Taylor

2. “You cannot kill what you did NOT create.”

— Corey Taylor

3. “Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.”

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4. “The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.”

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5. “I may never let go of my wrath, my anger, but I will always have the last laugh.”

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6. “The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don’t make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.”

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7. “Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.”

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8. “You can’t see California without Marlon Brando’s eyes.”

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9. “You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.”

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10. “Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don’t, you’re living someone else’s life.”

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11. “We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.”

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12. “Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?”

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13. “Live your life, no matter what that life is.”

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14. “You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.”

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15. “Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.”

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16. “I want karma to drive stakes into the dark hearts that keep me bitter.”

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17. “Take one more deep breath, savor it, and plunge forward without thinking. Do not allow yourself hesitation. Do not allow yourself a moment of doubt. Follow your instincts and go where you never would have considered possible.”

— Corey Taylor

18. “Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you’ve seen.”

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19. “I sin like crazy, but I protect my people.”

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20. “Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.”

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21. “Everything you feel is temporary.”

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22. “You have to get to the next level, or you’re gonna get stuck where you are for the rest of your life.”

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23. “Just because you did not understand us, it did not mean we were wrong.”

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24. “The weird thing about metal fans is we’re all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We’re individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities – sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.”

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25. “I love the fact that people can relate to what I’m saying, even if it’s not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.”

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26. “Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.”

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27. “I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.”

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28. “The ’90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven’t felt since.”

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29. “I bet you a handful of Chili’s coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish.”

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30. “I started to find that music was something that really brought a lot of joy into my life, and it was sort of cool because I discovered that I had a gift for it, too. So the stuff I would listen to I could play along, I could sing along.”

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31. “The difference between knowing yourself and trusting yourself is minute, but its repercussions are infinite.”

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32. “Justin Bieber is a douche bag. Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about cars.”

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33. “If you feel like talking, you talk, if you don’t, you don’t.”

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34. “It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you don’t forget.”

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35. “Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.”

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36. “Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.”

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37. “My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything – riffs, energy – but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.”

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38. “The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.”

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39. “Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which side of the “half” fence you are on: Does your life include a lie or just one big if? There is nothing wrong with either to be honest, but it will make your Sundays longer.”

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40. “Emo is pathetic. It’s a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix ‘-core’ to a description doesn’t make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “Too many people chase dreams that they don’t understand. Too many people try to go for things that they’d like to do, but they’re not realistic enough to know they don’t have the talent.”

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43. “If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.”

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44. “So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that’s painful but familiar because they’re comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something’s not good for them and to turn around and be alone.”

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45. “Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don’t come up with on my own.”

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46. “It’s amazing and sad what we have to do to survive sometimes.”

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47. “You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.”

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48. “You don’t break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That’s like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.”

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49. “The wheels on the bus may go ’round and ’round, but that bus might run you over if the driver gets fired.”

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50. “It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I’d let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment’s hesitation.”

— Corey Taylor