Top 60 Fred Durst Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.”

— Fred Durst

2. “That’s your best friend and your worst enemy – your own brain.”

— Fred Durst

3. “I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.”

— Fred Durst

4. “To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.”

— Fred Durst

5. “My life. The life I’m living that’s where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.”

— Fred Durst

6. “I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time.”

— Fred Durst

7. “I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I’m having and that I’ve had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.”

— Fred Durst

8. “Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.”

— Fred Durst

9. “I’m OCD beyond comparison.”

— Fred Durst

10. “When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.”

— Fred Durst

11. “I love jazz music and sad music. I’m a sentimental guy. I’m a romantic guy.”

— Fred Durst

12. “I love jazz music and sad music.”

— Fred Durst

13. “Limp Bizkit Ice Cream would taste like the sweetest pair of panties in the world. It would taste like sushi. Sushi or panties.”

— Fred Durst

14. “Without those hackers, we wouldn’t solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.”

— Fred Durst

15. “There’s some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?”

— Fred Durst

16. “I didn’t want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.”

— Fred Durst

17. “I don’t fight people for fun.”

— Fred Durst

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18. “I have always been Fred Durst and I’ve always been me.”

— Fred Durst

19. “I’m 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.”

— Fred Durst

20. “I’ve been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it’s that once you hit a few shots, you’ll become addicted.”

— Fred Durst

21. “If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing’s secure. Nothing’s safe. I don’t hate technology, I don’t hate hackers, because that’s just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn’t solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.”

— Fred Durst

22. “I made a lot mistakes that I’m grateful for, because I won’t make them again and I won’t let my artists make them, or I’ll tell them, ‘Don’t do this.’ A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can’t be told things when you’re doing your own thing.”

— Fred Durst

23. “I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.”

— Fred Durst

24. “Prague is a dark place.”

— Fred Durst

25. “When you’re a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you’re like, ‘God, why are they reading the newspaper?’ When you’re young, you’re not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper’s cool.”

— Fred Durst

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26. “Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.”

— Fred Durst

27. “It’s amazing how, over time, a person’s perspective can be altered.”

— Fred Durst

28. “I’m a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.”

— Fred Durst

29. “One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.”

— Fred Durst

30. “I wouldn’t support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.”

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31. “Directing a movie is serious, it’s not a joke.”

— Fred Durst

32. “I’m a sentimental guy.”

— Fred Durst

33. “When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you’re so consumed with that, you really don’t have time to know yourself. That’s surviving and getting by.”

— Fred Durst

34. “When you reminisce aren’t the times that someone’s forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.”

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35. “You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.”

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36. “I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren’t privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.”

— Fred Durst

37. “Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.”

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38. “There’s an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don’t know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.”

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39. “I’m always looking for new talent.”

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40. “As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I’m ready to rip it right now, there’s five people in the band, there’s five people who’ve evolved and grown and there’s five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.”

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41. “I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, ‘I’m lighthearted today, I’m gonna do this.’”

— Fred Durst

42. “There’s definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you’re so eclectic.”

— Fred Durst

43. “I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.”

— Fred Durst

44. “Sometimes you feel like it’s cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don’t know if it’s going to really come out.”

— Fred Durst

45. “I’m in touch with the social networks and stuff.”

— Fred Durst

46. “I don’t think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.”

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47. “When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn’t care who liked or who disliked.”

— Fred Durst

48. “Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you’re feeding on people’s energy.”

— Fred Durst

49. “I’m obsessed by film. I’m obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.”

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50. “Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That’s your best friend and your worst enemy – your own brain.”

— Fred Durst