Song Quotes by Phil Anselmo

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi…

— Phil Anselmo

There has got to be a lot of unreleased video out there, live footage and whatnot. There's always going to be something…

— Phil Anselmo

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and…

— Phil Anselmo

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal…

— Phil Anselmo

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but…

— Phil Anselmo

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck…

— Phil Anselmo

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild…

— Phil Anselmo

Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van…

— Phil Anselmo

Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to…

— Phil Anselmo

I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the past re-releases,…

— Phil Anselmo

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to…

— Phil Anselmo

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of…

— Phil Anselmo

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room…

— Phil Anselmo

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff…

— Phil Anselmo

I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great…

— Phil Anselmo

We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with…

— Phil Anselmo

I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain can agree with this - you feel this great significance. What I wanted to…

— Phil Anselmo

With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when…

— Phil Anselmo