75 Quotes by Josh Homme

Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.

The Queens of the Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizardbrain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn the Witch,' a homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween, ... For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries (literally).

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.

When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.