“Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.” LightDarknessStonesStructureChaosSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.” WantBandStonesSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.” StonesSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.” WayI CanDifferentSoulSongDarkWrittenStonesToneSoul SearchingFlipSourSinisterStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens." And it worked out.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentDoneHappensWantedTogetherGuyLeftFeltFiveNeededStonesOkayStuckFive YearsSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.” KindStonesSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.” HumansHeartSeemsWhiteCitiesBrainAliveSummerStonesHotSmellFleshWeatherExtrasNervesWireSkullsSourExposingHot Weather Author:Truman Capote
“Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.” YearsBelieveHas BeensI CanHandsBeautifulFacesImagineLateStonesCriticsReactionsMaskTragicFrozenHandsomeHauntingSourRailThrough The YearsArchetypeRanking Author:Buster Keaton