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Name: Corey Taylor Band: Slipknot Position Vocals Date Of Birth December 8th Place Of Birth ? Sex Male Official Site: Slipknot Fan Site: 6 (Sic) 6 Fan Site: 696 Fan Site: Running With Scissors Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

-"Today's underground hero is tomorrow's fucking Calvin Klein jeans commercial. Thats hard to take when you're a kid. I was lucky. I got to wait till I was 23 for Metallica to cheese out"


-"I was walkin' around in the Virgin Megastore unmasked the other day and I saw so many people in Slipknot shirts, it was fuckin' hilarious 'cause none of 'em recognised me. It ruled. I mean that's what it's all about."


-"I'm a pissed off fucking 20-something guy who had to grow up and watch all of his fucking heroes turn into cock-suckers."


-"We put the masks on because we're musicians and we play music, man. We're kind of rebelling against. Obviously, our masks have a great look, but the reason that we started doing it in the first place was because we'd seen so many fucking bands suck the money dick and just completely cheese out to where they would get onstage and they'd be like 'Hey, look! Do you like my new hairdo?' 'Cool!' 'D'ya like my new shirt that I bought on Santa Monica Boulevard today?' 'Cool!' 'Here's my new shoes, I'm endorsed.' 'Cool!' It's like 'Fuck you, man! Play your fuckin' music!' Nobody gives a shit, they want to fuckin' hear your music. And that's why we did the masks, that's why we did the coveralls, that's why we did all those things. We were like 'Fuck my face! Here's my mask, this is what the music turns me into.' And 'You know what? Fuck the clothing and the fuckin' fashion show that these other muthafuckers are puttin' on! Here's my coveralls, deal with that!' And 'Oh, music is product?' 'No, music is expression, here's my fuckin' barcode. There's your product!' 'Oh you want my name? You want to fuckin' be a name dropper? Here's my number on my right arm.' 'Piss off and die!' You know, we were so fuckin' tired of being let down and seeing so many other kids being let down by this shit that it was either you wait and wait and wait or you do it yourself."


-"Fred, you may have a lot of money and be all over the world, but when you talk shit about Slipknot and our fans… we will kill you."


-"Everybody wants to think that we're hiding behind these masks, you know? That's bullshit! If we were hiding, you'd never see us."


-"The craziest people live in Des Moines and not a lot of people know that....But they're going to now."


-"We aren't hiding behind these masks, we're actually revealing more to you than you might think. The mask I wear brings out all the shit inside me that I hate. Plus it hurts like hell, which helps my intensity."


-"I would make everyone eat raw meat. because I could."


-"We're here to fucking create and destroy"


-"I used to work at a porn shop in Des Moines. People would look at me like I was a freak, but they were the ones buying in the porn shop at four in the morning. Straight looking people I'd know would come to the register with 14-inch dildos and then they'd recognise me sitting there, and I'd be like, 'Like any lotions or lubes with that?'. But I didn't want anyone to feel dirty in the shop - because people are made to feel dirty every day of their lives, and that's bullshit"


          -Corey Taylor, Slipknot, Vocals, December 8th