Quotes By Scott Weiland
Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.
Scott Weiland
To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.
Scott Weiland
I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
Scott Weiland
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
Scott Weiland
I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
Scott Weiland
To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.
Scott Weiland
Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
Scott Weiland
But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
Scott Weiland
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
Scott Weiland
I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.
Scott Weiland
I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.
Scott Weiland
As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
Scott Weiland
It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.
Scott Weiland
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
Scott Weiland
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
Scott Weiland
Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.
Scott Weiland