Top 35 Joshua Homme Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I like when people take chances.”

— Joshua Homme

2. “I don’t mind saying what’s on my mind.”

— Joshua Homme

3. “I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.”

— Joshua Homme

4. “Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something.”

— Joshua Homme

5. “I’m not so much of a joiner.”

— Joshua Homme

6. “I’m not a militant, drug-taking freak! I’m sensitive.”

— Joshua Homme

7. “You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?”

— Joshua Homme

8. “Sometimes you’ve got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I’m trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.”

— Joshua Homme

9. “I know there are some labels that put out music for art’s sake, but I don’t know which ones.”

— Joshua Homme

10. “Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.”

— Joshua Homme

11. “Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.”

— Joshua Homme

12. “Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it’s not.”

— Joshua Homme

13. “I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It’s not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.”

— Joshua Homme

14. “I break my back for music because it’s something that I love, but I’m not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn’t want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren’t worth it.”

— Joshua Homme

15. “I’m not politically correct; I never said I was.”

— Joshua Homme

16. “If you’re trying to do something different, you can’t ask someone to help, because they’ll want to make it not different.”

— Joshua Homme

17. “I’ve been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don’t know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.”

— Joshua Homme

18. “I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they’re divorced and trying to get back at their wife.”

— Joshua Homme

19. “I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea’s for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.”

— Joshua Homme

20. “All I really care about is that I’m being honest and I’m real and I’m coming from a real place.”

— Joshua Homme

21. “I’m just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you’ll definitely like everything else.”

— Joshua Homme

22. “Records don’t have to be perfect.”

— Joshua Homme

23. “I think if you play music and you join a scene you’re already too late.”

— Joshua Homme

24. “I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.”

— Joshua Homme

25. “After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.”

— Joshua Homme

26. “A homemade affair that’s just in time for Halloween.”

— Joshua Homme

27. “I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light – that’s what makes it not depressing to me.”

— Joshua Homme

28. “I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don’t bring puka shells back. You’ve got to be careful of your vacation purchases.”

— Joshua Homme

29. “When you try to put everything into music, there’s no room left to try to make you think we’re cool. We know you think we’re cool.”

— Joshua Homme

30. “I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.”

— Joshua Homme

31. “I think more people need to make out.”

— Joshua Homme

32. “I’ve always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I’ve always played towards that. If I felt bad, that’s what I did.”

— Joshua Homme

33. “I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.”

— Joshua Homme

34. “Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.”

— Joshua Homme

35. “I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.”

— Joshua Homme

36. “I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.”

— Joshua Homme

37. “Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.”

— Joshua Homme

38. “I think people listen to whatever they think is good.”

— Joshua Homme