Josh Homme Quotes

I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

I lived for music since I could think.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn't enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk.

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.

The great love of my life is music.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.