Quotes

If everyone was the same, it would be boring as shit

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it’s natural to experiment.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I’d hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

To me, the most important thing was to treat people the way you want to be treated. Some people say that I’m a mean person. Well, you know what? The person that’s saying that is probably a dipshit and I put them in their place! I have a knack for doing that.

People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but I was faster and better than Metallica when I was in Metallica

Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.

No matter how beautiful a girl is, she still shits.

Yesterday’s answers has nothing to do with today’s questions.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die… I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

Yeah, yeah I think that’s one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we’re Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we’re normal

I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He’s an all-loving God.

People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.

A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.

I follow politics, but I don’t like to discuss it.

I try to incorporate melody. Even though I’m screaming. I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

I am not an atheist. I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I dont have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

Sometimes when I’ve gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

Whether or not punk is the flavor of the month is not important for us. Bad Religion has been popular through many different climates. When heavy metal was popular, when new wave was popular, Bad Religion was still there underneath the mainstream selling more and more records.

Always been a big heavy metal fan. I remember being 15 saying. Dude I’m going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal til I’m 60. I’m 35 now. I think I’m going to give it one more year.

I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I’m more interested in traditional ’80s heavy metal, and I’m still a little scared of black metal and death metal and their provocative imagery.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my ’80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N’ Roses.

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It’s been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it’s going to up the ante.

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 heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We’ll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.

Bon Jovi’s trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism. Now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

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

Anthrax, it’s something that gets you sick, it’s horrible, strong. It’s a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

I just want to be considered a heavy metal band, because metal has always been around and will always be around. We’re just a heavier version of metal. Heavy metal will never go away. It’s like a cockroach. It’s the best title, because we play metal that’s heavy.

Headbangers are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

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

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It’s a joy to be able to do it.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

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 on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that’s the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills – unless it’s heavy metal. People do not like death.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

I would say that I’m very proud that Metallica plays heavy music, but equally proud that we don’t think like a heavy-metal band.

Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it’s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it’s Judas Priest

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let’s face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?

If you are a pop band, don’t say you’re a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

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

Take a ride on heavy metal, it’s the only way that you can travel down that road.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that’s what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

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 in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

Ever since I was 12 years old I had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it’s a less valid form of music. My answer now is that you either feel it or you don’t. If metal doesn’t give that overwhelming surge of power that make the hair stand up at the back of your neck, you might never get it, and you know what? That’s okay, because judging by the 40,000 metalheads around me we’re doing just fine without you.

I’m only interested in heavy metal when it’s me who’s playing it. I suppose it’s a bit like smelling your own farts.

She’s the quiet type who’s into heavy metal.

Heavy metal is a universal energy, it’s the sound of a volcano. It’s rock, it’s earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we’d be a lot better off.

As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.