Joey Jordison Quotes

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I like composing music, but I love being with my family.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.