Heavy metal Quotes

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

— Eddie Trunk

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

— Rob Halford

Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.

— Panos Cosmatos

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

— Butch Trucks

Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.

— John Waite

I love a bit of heavy-metal.

— Chris McCausland

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

— Scott Ian

Heavy metal is immortal, but we're not.

— Rob Halford

I don't think I'd be healthy if I only were a heavy metal singer.

— Tarja Turunen

Basically I listen to just about everything except heavy metal.

— Kristin Kreuk

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

— Zeenat Aman

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

— Fred Schneider

Heavy metal is what Im into. Shit that moves you. Shit that has heart and soul.

— Dimebag Darrell

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.

— Carlos Carvalhal

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

— Ginger Baker

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

— Luke Mably

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal…

— Eric Close

I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same…

— Kristian Nairn

The last time I really got into new music that wasn't heavy metal was probably like... TV on the Radio? I think…

— Tim Schafer

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

— Travis Barker

I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically…

— Cory Arcangel

I truly believe heavy metal has gone south. Too many people are focusing on, will the songs be on the radio, will…

— Ivan Moody

“no scientific or medical study is valid unless and until a heavy metal assay has been completed on the subject(s).”

— Richard Diaz

“Her communicative presence is radiant heavy metal, searing crystallized magnetic lines of meteoric iron, and more complex layers underneath this, all so…

— N.K. Jemisin

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“This is Lovecraft's best terrible story. It is so artificial...and so overblown...and so ludicrous...that it slithers-through tiramisu-rich prose that might as well…

— Kenneth Hite

One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I…

— Eddie Trunk

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I…

— Jerry Saltz

We did some shows - Soulfly played for the Marines twice and it was great meeting those guys. A lot of them…

— Max Cavalera

The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with…

— Hank Williams III

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that.…

— M. Ward

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…

— Rob Zombie

“I was ten when I heard the music that ended the first phase of my life and cast me hurtling towards a…

— Mark Rice

You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of…

— Michael Medved

“(This is from a tribute poem to Ronnie James Dio: Former lead vocalist of the band Rainbow, Black Sabbath. This is written…

— Munia Khan

People ask me if I'm influenced by British music, and I suppose I grew up listening to mostly British music - from…

— Chino Moreno

“Sergeant Pepper was dead. G.I. Joe lived on. George Bush was president, movies stars were dying from AIDS, kids were smoking crack…

— Robert R. McCammon

If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems…

— Adam Gollner

It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked…

— Roger Glover

“A neurosurgeon once told me about operating on the brain of a young man with epilepsy. As is customary in this kind…

— Wilder Penfield