I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.
We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.
I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.
As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.
All my music sounds the same to me.
I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.
I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
There are two genres of music: there's good music and there's bad music.
I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.
When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
We're a unique band, so why have a generic producer lumping you in a box with other bands that sound the same?
Branching out to other genres - I think it's why people put me apart from other guitar instrumentalists.
...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.
