Josh Silver Quotes

I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones.

Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Strip. We crave talking to people who do different things and are passionate about it.

When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

Sasha Banks's success has absolutely nothing to do with me.

The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

You don't dig me, I don't understand what it is, I had my car reupholstered.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.

I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.