Top 44 Fred Durst Quotes

My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.

There’s some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you’re so consumed with that, you really don’t have time to know yourself. That’s surviving and getting by.

I’m an actor’s director.

My life. The life I’m living that’s where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

When you’re a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you’re like, ‘God, why are they reading the newspaper?’ When you’re young, you’re not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper’s cool.

For someone in my position, there’s opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn’t be eligible, and I think that’s left a bad taste in a lots of financers’ and studios’ mouths. Just cause someone’s popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn’t always the right thing.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

Directing a movie is serious, it’s not a joke.

I don’t hate technology, I don’t hate hackers, because that’s just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn’t solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

I’m my own salesman. I can’t let anybody do anything for me.

I want to make timeless movies.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, ‘Oh, they’re gonna get mellow, they’re gonna get soft.’

When I go to shows, I’m really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don’t like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn’t care who liked or who disliked.

I’m definitely on the incline to a peak.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

I’m 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren’t privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

I love jazz music and sad music. I’m a sentimental guy. I’m a romantic guy.

I’m OCD beyond comparison.

Sometimes it’s about less is more. It’s about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.

I’m an actor’s director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing’s secure. Nothing’s safe. I don’t hate technology, I don’t hate hackers, because that’s just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn’t solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell – like I do – is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you’re feeding on people’s energy.

Sometimes you feel like it’s cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don’t know if it’s going to really come out.

I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell – like I do – is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

I’m a real director.

I’m always looking for new talent.

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I’m ready to rip it right now, there’s five people in the band, there’s five people who’ve evolved and grown and there’s five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

I am not a hater.

I won’t deny a song or a melody. I can’t deny it.

I have always been Fred Durst and I’ve always been me.

I’m a romantic guy.

I’m the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I’m not doing a dance for you on another song. It’s all a direct assault.

There’s an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don’t know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

There’s definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you’re so eclectic.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

I wouldn’t support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.