Corey Taylor Quotes

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

A great speech is literature.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

The key to Presidential debates is to rehearse those [dramatic] moments but don’t let them look scripted.

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

I can sit and write clever things, but that never quite works as well as when I'm just chatting about stupid things in the moment.

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

There’s no preparation for poetry.

I have an outline but never use a teleprompter. That kills the connection.

All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style.

I don't think fast enough on my feet in terms of the writing to change the script too much when I'm shooting it. I like to have it set and done and know that I feel good about it and I might add a few lines here and there while we're shooting, if I think of a new joke, I might toss it in, but for the most part, I try to stick to the written script and have all the latitude exist within that.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

As you talk, so is your heart.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

There are no wrong notes.

I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.