Top 55 Joey Jordison Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.

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

If you only play metal, it’s going to be very apparent that you’re a one-dimensional drummer.

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

‘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.

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

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.

No matter what comes your way, being a musician, you will never, ever learn to play it all.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Slipknot’s not about who’s in the band. It’s a lifeblood. It’s a force. It’s about a connection between a bunch of people.

Without Metallica, I wouldn’t play the way that I do.

‘Vol. 3’ is the most pleasing of our albums to me. And I want to keep making albums that are different from each other. And you can bet all our albums will have that twist that only Slipknot can do.

When everyone tells you, ‘No, no, no,’ your creative forces get a little twisted and turn into something more apocalyptic than ever.

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

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

That’s the way a musician is. You’re isolated, in a weird way, because music is haunting you as much as it’s loving you. It’s non-stop.

It’s not about the names or the faces: it’s about the music we are creating.

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.

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

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

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.

You can’t give up in life. You just can’t do it, no matter what it is that is going on.

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

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

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It’s like thinking. It’s like eating. It’s like walking.

I’m used to living out of a suitcase.

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 wasn’t worried about flash or persona… It’s all about writing a good, solid song.

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

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.’

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.

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.

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.

I’m always in the right headspace! I live pretty much in isolation, so there are really no distractions. That’s not a manufactured thing; it’s just the way I live.

Slipknot will never die. As long as we’re together, it just won’t. When it’s time for us to end, we’ll know when it’s time.

I’m constantly writing music and keeping myself busy somehow.

Without blood and pain, there is no Slipknot.

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.

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

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

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

‘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.

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.