Heavy Metal Quotes - Page 2

• Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.

  Ian Gillan

  Want, Rock N Roll, Metals

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

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• I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

  Lars Ulrich

  Thinking, Play, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

  Billy Joel

  Golf, Musician, Typical

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• The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

  Dave Mustaine

  Guitar, Influence, Wave

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• Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Rap, Kids

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• I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Running, Thinking, People

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• They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

  Ginger Baker

  Abortion, Birth, Should

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• I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

  Phil Anselmo

  Real, Metal Fans, Mtv

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

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• Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

  Dick Dale

  Father, Player, Guitar

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• It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Metal Fans, Cameras

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• I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Inspirational, Basketball, Character

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• We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

  Glenn Tipton

  Night, Joy, Able

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• 1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.

  Martin Popoff

  Nadir, Picnics, Metals

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Hair, People

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up”, p.244, Ballantine Books

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• Usually when I'm mad, I'd rather listen to angry music than soothing music - more heavy metal, some Metallica or something.

  Matt Kenseth

  Mad, Metallica, Soothing

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I just want to be considered a heavy metal band, because metal has always been around and will always be around. We're just a heavier version of metal. Heavy metal will never go away. It's like a cockroach. It's the best title, because we play metal that's heavy.

  Mitch Lucker

  Play, Going Away, Titles

  Source: www.theaureview.com

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• Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off with shotguns? Where's the problem? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Home, Humor

  Song: More Drugs, Album: No Cure For Cancer

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• My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

  Zack Snyder

  Mom, Looks, Metals

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• I started out in a heavy metal band with a guy who could really play guitar, and I thought the only thing missing from Guided By Voices was a lead guitarist. In the early days, I would bring people in just to play leads, like Greg Demos and Steve Wilbur.

  Robert Pollard

  Guitar, Play, Voice

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• Basically I listen to just about everything except heavy metal.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Heavy, Metals

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

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• Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Cake, Life And Death, Alex

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• Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

  Scott Ian

  Strong, Names, Sick

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• I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

  Luke Mably

  Mirrors, Vampire, Pretending

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• Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Sound, Use

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• It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.

  Rob Zombie

  Running, Song, Rap

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