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" Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands. "
Scott Weiland
People
Chance
Professional
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" Every single thing I've done has made me who I am today. The only thing I would take back is hurting the people that I love, and the people who I love have already read my lyrics and heard my apologies. But the rest of the world, I don't need to apologize to them. My life doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the world. "
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" One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing. "
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" My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don't get a chance to do that as much as I'd like. I don't live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don't get to do that much, either. "
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" I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb. "
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" I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies. "
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" Well, a lot of successes come by mistake. "
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" Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s. "
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" I want my ex-wife and children to be happy. "
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" To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it. "
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" Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of their biggest hits. But that's something for the lawyers to figure out. "
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" It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child. "
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" When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy. "
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" I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish. "
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" I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them. "
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" If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies. "
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" Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting. "
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" A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture. "
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" There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance. "
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" Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it. "
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