Metal Quotes · Page 4

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

— Brian Posehn

My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.

— Hideo Kojima

“There are two types of people in the world: people who like heavy metal, and dicks.”

— Andrew O'Neill

As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist.

— Paul Gilbert

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

— Billy Corgan

A lot of these dudes in metal, they're just mad at the world because, like... who even knows?

— JPEGMAFIA

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

— Martin Popoff

If you only play metal, it's going to be very apparent that you're a one-dimensional drummer.

— Joey Jordison

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

— Woodrow Wilson

Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in…

— Brian Posehn

When you look at metal, it's probably one of the healthiest genres when you look at it in a worldwide perspective -…

— M. Shadows

There's very few rock & roll bands. There's rock bands, there's sort of metal bands, there's whatever, but there's no rock &…

— Malcolm Young

I see metal as really connected to tribalism. Like, even the way we dress and the way we love the music and…

— Max Cavalera

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an…

— Kirk Hammett

The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.

— Eddie Trunk

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving…

— Joan Didion

I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know,…

— Edgar Winter

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest…

— Al Stewart

Ever since I was 12 years old I had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it's a…

— Sam Dunn

It's a myth that I received any flak from the metal community over my decision to come out. I have, in fact,…

— Rob Halford

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

— Eddie Trunk

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean,…

— Neil Young

A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take…

— Keith Ellison

Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it's surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like…

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

— Stjepan Hauser

I really like 'Metal Wolf Chaos,' but it's not my title.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

What puts people off metal is they think it's all nutters and blood. We don't want to be seen that way.

— Oliver Sykes

I'm a family guy who grew up with metal, and even though I'm domesticated I still have this in me.

— Jim Breuer

'Wages Of Sin' was the first metal album I ever bought, and it was love at first listen.

— Alissa White-Gluz

“Metal makes everything magical. Just ask a unicorn. . .preferably one with a metal horn.”

— Sybrina Durant

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

— M. Shadows

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

— Christopher Lee

I have lots of friends who stopped being into metal and just quit. Not for me, man.

— Max Cavalera

For years I wouldn't listen to black metal from anywhere but Norway.

— Mick Barr

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

— Brandon Thomas

I'm not a big metal fan. I love and respect the musicianship, which is spectacular.

— Steven Adler

I've often talked about metal being the underdog in rock n' roll music.

— Rob Halford

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

— David Pajo

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

— Yui Mizuno

With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don't fit in.

— Oliver Sykes