Top 60 Wayne Static Quotes

You gotta give props to Ozzy as the creator of all evil faces. What would we do in photo sessions if it were not for Ozzy?

Don’t even get me started about how much I hate the Internet, ’cause I’ll rant for hours about this.

I just do not understand all of these guys that get married and then want to go spend all of their time with their buddies.

I’m sure I acted differently after I got married, I know I did. But… people get married and things change. It doesn’t mean that the band has to break up.

Being married has not affected my career at all other than just making me happier to be on the road.

Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they’re either gone now, or they got just mega huge, like System of a Down or Incubus.

Static-X had a great run. We did everything we wanted to do and everyone wanted to do their own thing for a while.

Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands – Metallica is one – that broke through.

I know the Lamb of God guys. They’re way mellow.

It’s cool that MTV is making an effort to support bands like us.

I don’t like to do any editing on guitars. I think the more editing you do, it just takes away from the feel of the performance.

I realized how important it was to have a good team – manager, attorney and label. It’s not just about putting out a record and somebody signing you.

I listen to classic rock for the most part.

You know, Kiss can always go on as long as Gene and Paul want it to go on. Static-X is the same way. We’re the two founding guys and the two vocalists and the driving force of the band. We can go on as long as we want, as long as the two of us are together. If I ever lost Tony, I’m sure I’d start something else.

Listening to Ozzy Osbourne at full blast always made me feel a little bit better. It made me feel like I wasn’t alone.

I feel like my whole life I’ve been searching for what I want to do, searching for my identity as a musician and a songwriter, and my band’s identity.

Anyone who likes Static-X will definitely like my solo record.

We can’t seem to put out an album without any drama.

For singers and drummers, you’ve really gotta have your chops together just to do a rehearsal.

I’ve always written by myself. I’ve never been in a situation where the whole band sat in a room and wrote a song. I don’t work that way.

I don’t know how these bands did it back in the ’70s when they would crank out two records a year and tour at the same time, which is incredible to me. I have so much respect for all those bands working so hard like that.

It’s just been really hard, ’cause I had a really hard year in 2012 where I had to have triple hernia surgery, and I was out of commission for a year; I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t sing, I couldn’t do anything with work. So it was kind of a rough year.

Here’s the way Static-X has always worked: I write all the songs by myself – totally and completely by myself – I give demos to the other guys, and then they add their parts to it, and then we argue about stuff and compromise and it turns out being Static-X.

Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring… and I love it.

Static-X has never been a band where the four guys get into a room together and jam and write songs and all that kind of stuff.

Chromamatic’ is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.

Pighammer’ is my pure vision of what I want to do, but at the same time, if you like Static-X, you will love ‘Pighammer.’

I remember when we were mixing our record and our manager was in there going, ‘You guys need to sing more, so it can be on the radio.’ And we were like ‘What? We’re never going to get played on the radio. Who cares? What are you talking about?’

The band that I always wanted to tour with was Pantera, and we got to tour with them twice.

Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.

Don’t get me wrong: I love the great times I had with Static-X, but sometimes the writing/recording process was frustrating for me.

To listen to my first record, it doesn’t sound like me.

I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.

I’ve wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the ‘Machine‘ record.

I like Journey, Bad Company, Soundgarden and Aerosmith.

You know, people hate me or love me and I just don’t even bother paying attention to it anymore.

When you write, what’s going on in your life shines through in the songs.

Here’s what it comes down to: I’ve been making records and touring for over 10 years now. I’m very successful living it, doing it… I’m with an absolutely beautiful wife that’s half my age.

I’m very picky about who we tour with.

Metal fans are the most hard-core, loyal fans.

Interview With a Vampire‘ is one of my favorite movies of all time. ‘Queen of the Damned,’ not so much one of my favorite movies, but it’s one of the best soundtracks of all time.

We became one of those bands that could be around forever like Slayer. We can go on as long as we want to, as long as we have fun.

Mexico scares me. There’s no law, there’s wild dogs and people driving their ATVs down the street. I like to know I can walk down the street and not be arrested for something dumb and have to pay to get my way out.

I actually re-signed with Warner Bros. on my own. They’ve been really good to us and all the people over there are great; they love me and I love them. So I’m just sticking with them.

When I’m in a bad mood, I feel better listening to someone else who sounds like they’re in a bad mood. That was especially true when I was a kid, and I was mad at my mom or dad for whatever reason.

The original lineup, we got on stage, we had a great chemistry, it was awesome, and then when we left the stage, we never talked to each other. There’s a lot of bands that way. Who cares? What’s wrong with it?

It gets weird with people wanting to touch my hair and beard boundaries, you know?

It’s harder and harder to sell records now. You’ve got to give extra value. You’ve got to give people a reason to go out and buy it rather than burn a friend‘s copy.

Sometimes things get too layered and compressed or there’s too many effects and they turn into mush on record. I strive to keep it raw and live-sounding, like you are in the room watching the band play.

Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just happy to have a job.

Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs for Static-X and the other guys in the band spent their free time working on their other projects.

I think our first record was a fluke, really. The fact that it went platinum and all that, it was all due to one video and the timing being just right.

The studio can be quite tedious.

All of our records seem to capture a certain period of time for us.

Nothing in life is free, you always pay in the end.

Metal never dies. Sometimes it’s not on the radio and sometimes it’s not at the forefront, but heavy rock or metal, or whatever the hell you want to call it, has always been around and will always be around.

For me, if we’re going to have a guitar solo, it needs to be over the top.

For some reason, I don’t spend enough time getting to see my family because I’m always touring or working or whatnot.

I’m always working on multiple songs at a time.

We’re definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we’re a metal band.