Corey Taylor Quotes

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

I love Hank Williams, he's the original emo kid. Some of his lyrics remind me of, like, Promise Ring lyrics.

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

We're not a Screamo band.

I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone. Emo is bullshit! If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, then yes, we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype.

I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

'Wrecking Ball' is a great song.

I'm known for mushy music.

I listen to some really bad country.

I loved Alva Noto's 'Xerrox, Vol. 3' a lot. It might be my favorite of his records. I must admit, I was bummed to see him say he was surprised by how emotional the record came out, as if he was ashamed. But there's something perfect about that.

Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.

I'm a sucker for two things: Adam Lambert and songs that start out as emo as a sad episode of 'Felicity' and then drop. That. Beat.

There are two genres of music: there's good music and there's bad music.

I don't really consider my music anything other than 'moody.' I don't know if that's a genre.

Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness.

I was really into emo and scene culture in middle school.

Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'

I like to just make flex music. So when I do make emotional music, it's hard for me, because I feel like I'm cliche. But I guess cliche is the best thing sometimes, because it's real.

There was some real bad alternative - 'alternative' - stuff that came out in the '90s that's completely cringe-worthy.

I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.

Music is all about creativity.