Fred Durst Quotes

One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

Limp Bizkit Ice Cream would taste like the sweetest pair of panties in the world. It would taste like sushi. Sushi or panties.

Prague is a dark place.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.

The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

I'm in touch with the social networks and stuff.

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

I want to make timeless movies.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

I'm always looking for new talent.

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

I love jazz music and sad music.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

I think the key is to realize that life is temporary and spending life questioning life is a waste of time.

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

I've always wanted to make movies.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

I'm a sentimental guy.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.