Phil Anselmo Quotes

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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…
• You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world…
• I may be loaded. I may be drunk. But I ain't stupid.
• I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.
• We definitely have a hardcore following.
• There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick
• And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again
• To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music
• With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with…
• You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse…
• I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy.…
• I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.
• There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.
• I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel…
• I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
• 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 band; awesome harmony;…
• I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm…
• To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write…
• You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its…
• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and…

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