Top 55 Joey Jordison Quotes

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

With me, I would never lose my sight of music.

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

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

Slipknot is hard work; I don’t care what anybody says.

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.’

The mask is a pain thing. It’s clammy, and your body is moving all over, and you‘re locked into this thing, and you can’t get out.

The first mask I had was an original pale-white kabuki mask.

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.

When I first heard Korn, they blew me away, and I’ve been a fan ever since.

I’ve been a fan of Zombie’s since the beginning. I’ve toured with them and have always wanted to play for them.

The riffs, lyrics, and drums of ‘Open Your Omen’ will tell you a lot.

Slipknot is my baby. It is my life. It means everything. Everything I do means the world to me, but when it comes down to it, Slipknot… that’s my blood.

Without Slipknot, I would not necessarily be where I am today.

The power of music, and the power of your determination in life, especially when you’re playing extreme metal like this… it just conquers. It conquers everything.

That’s where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do – most of my style comes straight from death metal.

I’ve got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I’m coming up with so many riffs.

First and foremost, I make music to satisfy my creative urges, but at the same time, I know my fans are waiting, so they’re the ones that push me to keep going.

You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover.

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

On the records that I grew up with and loved, every song was unique – it’s almost as if you had a different journey every time – and the drums were big part of that story.

What better to get all the anger and stuff out for what I do in Slipknot than to play the drums? You’re punching everything, really fast, concentrated.

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.

Playing drums is how I communicate. It’s how I speak to people. That’s my God-given gift.

‘Master of Reality‘ rules; it’s one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it – and some of the sexiest riffs as well.

I got ‘Reign In Blood’ for Easter one year – how ironic is that?

One of the things I love about this job is meeting different people.

Without Metallica, we wouldn’t have a lot of the bands that we have now.

‘Vol. 3’ has broken down more barriers for us. We worked with different styles on this album. It’s more musically mature in arrangement and is conceptual.

There is no such thing as an easy Slipknot show. It doesn’t exist. It’s tough, but we wouldn’t like it if it was easy.

People lump us into the nu-metal category, and there might be a hint of that stuff, but if you really listen to a nu-metal band and then listen to Slipknot, it’s so apples and oranges that it’s retarded.

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.

A lot of the time, I will write a guitar riff first. I don’t write drum riffs first.

You can’t think about what other people think. You just can’t. It’s stupid. You’ve got to look inside yourself.

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

The communication within Sinsaenum is really, really cool. As extreme as the music is, you might not realize how much we respect each other and how much we coach each other and how well we communicate.

Man, failure was not an option whatsoever, ’cause I’m here to play music – that’s what I’ve been put on earth for.

Slipknot’s music is very technical and intense, and it’s not easy to play, but that’s what makes it special. What’s so gratifying about playing a show that is that intense is when you get off the stage, and you know you really delivered at the top of your ability and performance; that is what makes it all worthwhile.

Without Metallica, I wouldn’t be doing what I am doing. I have every Metallica record, of course, and I would spend hours on drums in my parents‘ basement with the stereo behind me, cranking those records and learning Lars’ drum beats, beat by beat.

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.

The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn’t even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months.

I’m used to living out of a suitcase.

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.

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.

When someone‘s in the hospital – be it a family member or anyone that has something wrong with them – if you love ’em, then you visit them.

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

There is nothing whatsoever friendly about Slipknot. Corey may have a singing voice, but it’s always been done with so much passion that it’s always been brutal.

I love listening to old records. Stuff from the ’70s, even disco and funk records and a lot of early rock albums – what’s great about those recordings is that you can actually hear the true tones of the drums themselves.

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.

The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.

Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

I’m so excited ‘Doctor Who”s coming back. It’s a great show, wild and exciting. I watched it as a kid, and it freaked me out.

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

‘My Swan Song’ – that song is so depressing but uplifting at the same time, you know what I mean?