Top 100 Corey Taylor Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests – sometimes the very people doing the protesting have NO IDEA what they are talking about.”

— Corey Taylor

52. “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

53. “She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They’re like the size of rulers!”

— Corey Taylor

54. “The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn’t know who I was.”

— Corey Taylor

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

— Corey Taylor

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

— Corey Taylor

57. “As much as I love Slipknot, I don’t want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.”

— Corey Taylor

58. “I’m not gonna do the same, tired, standard ‘I was born in a log cabin’ kind of book. There’s so much more I want to do.”

— Corey Taylor

59. “If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don’t know when you’re experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.”

— Corey Taylor

60. “Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.”

— Corey Taylor

61. “When I was a kid, I had THE biggest crush on Helen Reddy. I mean like for REAL crush – like ‘spend some time in the bathroom thinking about her’ crush. I blme Pete’s Dragon. There she was – flushed, singing, clas in a tight wet plaid shirt. Judas Priest she was fabulous.”

— Corey Taylor

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

— Corey Taylor

63. “I don’t mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you’ve got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.”

— Corey Taylor

64. “I didn’t have the worst childhood, but I didn’t have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.”

— Corey Taylor

65. “The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.”

— Corey Taylor

66. “RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular.”

— Corey Taylor

67. “Life sucks, so grab a straw and suck it.”

— Corey Taylor

68. “I’ve got to be honest, and I’m not just saying this because the majority of you reading this live there, but I love the United Kingdom. I just flat-out love it.”

— Corey Taylor

69. “High school is meant to be socialism for beginners. Instead, it becomes a strange TV movie for the feudal system. You end up with a commingling of everything bad in the world.”

— Corey Taylor

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

— Corey Taylor

71. “I think of how and where all the horrible people I’ve come across in my life ended up, and I smile.”

— Corey Taylor

72. “I still have night terrors about things happening to my son. The worst things cross your mind when you care so much. I keep them at bay as best I can, and it’s a struggle for me not to just do everything for him.”

— Corey Taylor

73. “I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.”

— Corey Taylor

74. “Twitter. Honestly, that’s all I really have to say to explain insanity.”

— Corey Taylor

75. “You ever tasted a smell? It’s a very strange feeling. I’ve done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.”

— Corey Taylor

76. “I haven’t been everywhere, but I’ve been to enough “wheres” to know that Earth has pockets of stupid popping up north, south, east, and west. From the equator to the prime meridian – dumb does not so easily wash off.”

— Corey Taylor

77. “I’ve still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it’s just a very special place to me. I’m still very proud to call Iowa home.”

— Corey Taylor

78. “I didn’t write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to keep cribbed notes I could come back to if necessary. I wanted this to feel like a conversation because it was what I wanted to say that mattered, not how it looked on paper.”

— Corey Taylor

79. “But even compared to my fashion disasters, this guy looked like a douche pickle soaked in toilet water.”

— Corey Taylor

80. “It’s one giant Bowflex commercial covered in booze vomit.”

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81. “You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you’ll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it’s like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn’t, really.”

— Corey Taylor

82. “I think you’re always gonna have half the generation that’s lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.”

— Corey Taylor

83. “I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.”

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84. “Anyone who feels that homosexuality is not only a sin but also a disease or a mental issue should take a look in the mirror and realize who the real crazy person is.”

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85. “The way I make music is just a reflection of how I think music should be made. Where you sit in a studio, and you make music, and you use technology to your advantage, not to hide all the blaring mistakes.”

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86. “The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.”

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87. “As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.”

— Corey Taylor

88. “The pale fabric of reality has so many hidden pockets that we can find some change in here somewhere – you just have to dig a little deeper to avoid the chewing gum and past mistakes.”

— Corey Taylor

89. “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

90. “People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get them all down. I am here today to let the world know my greatest influence, my secret ingredient, really. What inspires me? That’s simple: COFFEE.”

— Corey Taylor

91. “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

92. “I don’t know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.”

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93. “I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.”

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94. “When you’re a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it’s all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don’t mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.”

— Corey Taylor

95. “Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.”

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96. “I can’t remember who said it, but there’s a great saying that goes, “Dumb should hurt.”

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97. “But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.”

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98. “To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?”

— Corey Taylor

99. “There’s times when I’m cleaning the kitchen, and while I’m doing that, I’m singing and air guitaring with a broom to ‘You Should Be Dancing.’”

— Corey Taylor

100. “The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they’ll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.”

— Corey Taylor