Best 15 quotes of Austin Carlile on MyQuotes

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

If you're a fan of hurting others, talking down to, or trying to bring others down, then never call yourself a fan of mine.

I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.

I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.

Its disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and Im comfortable with myself.

I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.

What I think of when I think of nu-metal: structured, heavy music that has a point. It's angry just like all the other music, but the bigger parts are bigger and the powerful parts are more powerful and the slow parts slower.

When I think of nu-metal, I think of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and even Chevelle - those types of bands.

Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.