Joey Jordison Quotes About Failure, Kiss, Music, Learn

Joey Jordison Quotes:

Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it’s not your style of music, because you will learn a lot.
Joey Jordison

‘Blood Host’ is super heavy. Especially on the verses, it has an industrial stomp. It’s one of my favourite tracks just because the plot of it is so heavy. It’s a total crushing tune; it doesn’t get any heavier than that main riff, just a straight quarter-note powerhouse.
Joey Jordison

Every day is a good day above ground, and especially being able to play metal and being able to your craft and everything. You’ve gotta respect that, because it’s something that can be taken away from you really quick.
Joey Jordison

Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.
Joey Jordison

How I found out is, I landed in Des Moines from a plane ride back from the Rob Zombie tour. I was, like, ‘Okay, cool, I’m home. I can finally get some rest.’ Once I landed, I turned my phone on, and my manager rang, and I’m, like, ‘Oh, what?’ He said, ‘Paul Gray just died.’
Joey Jordison

I didn’t quit Slipknot. I would never have quit Slipknot, ever.
Joey Jordison

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I don’t use a Beatmap; I don’t use any click track. Any time I count off, it’s just in my heart. Sometimes I’ll go off the feel of a crowd, like if they way they’re bouncing is a little quicker than the song, I might kick up the tempo a little bit. I see where the crowd is at. It’s nothing drastic, but all the tempos are from my internal clock.
Joey Jordison

I got over the transverse myelitis stuff; I’m walking great, and I’m playing faster; I mean, I’m just playing all the time. I have to, just as exercise.
Joey Jordison

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn’t play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
Joey Jordison

I have a ton of Slipknot demos that I have at home. Maybe some day they’ll surface; maybe they’ll never be heard, but I don’t translate them to any other band: they still stay in the Slipknot safe. I won’t use them for anyone else besides Slipknot, if that ever happens again.
Joey Jordison

I just can’t bring myself to see Sabbath without Bill Ward, because he was such an integral part of that band.
Joey Jordison

I lie more with drums and the more heavy and darker aspects of music.
Joey Jordison

I play guitar all the time, and I’m constantly thinking of songs… Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I’ve been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can’t use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.
Joey Jordison

I saw Kiss on ‘The Dick Clark Show’ in, like, 1980 or something, and ‘Kiss Alive!’ was the first record of theirs I had.
Joey Jordison

I sleep music. I wake up, and there’s a riff in my head. Every step I take, there’s a riff, a beat, or something.
Joey Jordison

I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.
Joey Jordison

I want to get out as much art as I can while I’m here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.
Joey Jordison

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.
Joey Jordison

I’d been working on new Slipknot material since the end of the ‘All Hope Is Gone’ tour cycle, but I ended up with so much stuff, I had to take a step back and stop working on it.
Joey Jordison

I’m just as much into Emperor as I am Alice Cooper.
Joey Jordison

I’m not more into one scene than any other, and that’s why I feel very lucky to be able to go into two different styles of music and be successful at both.
Joey Jordison

I’m used to living out of a suitcase.
Joey Jordison

I’m writing music that people can grasp and hold on to… something that resonates. If you don’t have that, then you have nothing.
Joey Jordison

I’ve been into 3IOB since ‘Battle Cry Under a Winter’s Sun.’ I’ve wanted to work with them since.
Joey Jordison

I’ve been using Pearl for so long, ever since I was a kid. Same thing with Paiste. They have both taken such great care of me, and I can’t thank them enough.
Joey Jordison

Keith Moon was amazing as a drummer, but he was also a nut, and it reflected in his drumming. And the great thing about Who records is that you can almost get hold of the vinyl and feel his heart.
Joey Jordison

Life takes you down weird paths.
Joey Jordison