Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

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

— Ronnie James Dio

I like to share my metal with other musicians. It's very cool.

— Max Cavalera

The great thing about Priest, in all the years that we've been making heavy metal music, is that we've always kind of carried this…

— Rob Halford

I hope everyone can appreciate the wonderful aspects of metal music.

— Moa Kikuchi

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

— Luke Mably

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

When I first became involved in Babymetal, I honestly hadn't known what metal music was about so everything was new to me.

— Moa Kikuchi

I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks.…

— Varg Vikernes

To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.

— Varg Vikernes

When we first started out, we had no idea what metal music was all about. But now we listen to everything from cute songs…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

I love heavy-metal music more than anything in the world, but I'm equally drawn to Michael Buble or Michael Feinstein.

— Rob Halford

We're a rock n' roll band. We play heavy metal music. And we want to give you a great time. That's basically how it…

— Rob Halford

New Orleans cats don't play a lot of solos unless they got something to say. It's not an ego thing like it is with…

— Dr. John

There's a lot of older musicians who say your whole life making music, you're really trying to get back to that first couple of…

— Adam Granduciel

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too,…

— Antonin Dvorak