Top 55 Wayne Static Quotes

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 had a dream I was onstage naked and I forgot how to play the songs.

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.

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.

For the most part, metal has been underground. It’s too dangerous for mom and dad and schools. It will probably always be that way.

Pighammer’ is what I envisioned the first Static-X record to be; trancier, a bigger electronic vibe with more keyboards.

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

But anytime at a metal show, fans are going to be going crazy.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

After the 2009 ‘Cult Of Static’ touring cycle ended, I felt that, as a band, Static-X had accomplished everything we set out to accomplish, and now I could finally take the time to do my own thing and make a record that is completely my vision without compromising for anyone or anything.

I have some drinks at night but that’s it.

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

I’d stay on tour for the rest of my life if I could. It’s awesome.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We had an incident back in 2001 where our drummer threw out a drumstick into the crowd and it hit someone in the eye and they were going to sue us. You just always have to be really careful with that kind of stuff.

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.

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

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.

The studio can be quite tedious.

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

I like playing Michigan.

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

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

All of my records have their own vibe, depending on what was going on in my life.

Obviously, we’ve proved a lot of skeptics, who thought we’d be gone after a record or two, wrong.

I like Journey, Bad Company, Soundgarden and Aerosmith.

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

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.

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.

My passion outside of music is that I am a total gear head. My wife and I own six vehicles, three of which are off-road.

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

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 hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we’re pushing ourselves to try new things and experiment in our writing approach.

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?

For many records, everyone was like, ‘Oh, this next record is going to be their last, blah, blah, blah.’ But here we are on our sixth full-length studio album and we debut at No. 16. It’s obvious we’re not going anywhere.

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

My hobby is old 4×4’s, you know, old Blazers and Broncos and stuff.

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.

My mom is about 60 years old and she loves our music because she can bounce around to it.

This ‘Pighammer’ record is supposed to be a side project. And it just so happens that at the same time I’m recording this record, our contract was up with Warner Bros., so it’s time for Static-X to re-sign.

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

I listen to classic rock for the most part.

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.