Billy Joel

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

Lars Ulrich

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.

Ian Gillan

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

Eddie Trunk

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Peter Tork

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

Peter Steele

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 […]

Glenn Danzig

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

Jello Biafra

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 […]

Ozzy Osbourne

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 […]

Geezer Butler

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.