Heavy Metal Quotes

• I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

  Kurt Cobain

  Attitude, Different, Metals

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• As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Real, Kids, Long

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• If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

  Bruce Dickinson

  World, Band, Metals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Volcanoes, Energy

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• She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

  Billy Joel

  Rock And Roll, Quiet, Type

  Song: Modern Woman, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Music, Strong, Smart

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• I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.

  John Entwistle

  Fart, Metals, Bits

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• Ever since I was 12 years old I had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it's a less valid form of music. My answer now is that you either feel it or you don't. If metal doesn't give that overwhelming surge of power that make the hair stand up at the back of your neck, you might never get it, and you know what? That's okay, because judging by the 40,000 metalheads around me we're doing just fine without you.

  Sam Dunn

  Hair, Years, Giving

  "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Fantasy, Metals

  "Christopher Lee recorded an incredible cover of 'My Way' - let's get it in the charts" by Simon Reynolds, www.digitalspy.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Why would heavy metal ever go away?

  Scott Ian

  Going Away, Heavy, Metals

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• The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

  Kirk Hammett

  Evil, Sound, Horror

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• You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

  Phil Anselmo

  Pulse, Looks, Alive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

  Tom Araya

  Music, Country, Song

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

  Don Felder

  Rock And Roll, Way, Metals

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• I went to a heavy metal concert. The singer yelled out, "How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?" And then he said, "How many of you feel like animals?" The thing is, everyone cheered after the animals part, but I cheered after the human beings part because I did not know there was a second part to the question.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Animal

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• It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Writing, Keys, People

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• If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

  Geezer Butler

  Music, Boys, Poison

  "GEEZER BUTLER - 'The '80's Were The Worst Period For Metal'". Metal Exiles Interview, bravewords.com. March 24, 2005.

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• All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mean, Rocks, Stuff

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• Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

  Jello Biafra

  Teacher, People, Dresses

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• To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest

  Glenn Danzig

  Metal Fans, People, Priests

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• I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

  Sam Dunn

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  "Heavy metal and violence: More than a myth?" by James Donkin, www.cnn.com. ay 12, 2008.

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• I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

  Peter Steele

  Inspirational, Softball, Hate

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• Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

  Peter Tork

  Disco Music, Pops, Heavy Music

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• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

  Eddie Trunk

  Black, Opinion, Sabbath

  "Eddie Trunk Slams The Grammy’s: 'They Just Have No Clue At All When It Comes To Rock And Heavy Metal'". Interview with Ben Smith, eddietrunk.com. January 27, 2014.

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• That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.

  Ian Christe

  Powerful, Roots, Fans

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