1.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
Peter Tork
2.
To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest
Glenn Danzig
3.
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
Kurt Cobain
4.
If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
Bruce Dickinson
5.
Why would heavy metal ever go away?
Scott Ian
6.
Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.
Ian Gillan
7.
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.
John Entwistle
8.
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
Christopher Lee
9.
I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.
Kerry King
10.
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.
Phil Anselmo
11.
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.
Ginger Baker
12.
She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.
Billy Joel
13.
Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.
Don Felder
14.
1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.
Martin Popoff
15.
Usually when I'm mad, I'd rather listen to angry music than soothing music - more heavy metal, some Metallica or something.
Matt Kenseth
16.
My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'
Zack Snyder
17.
I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.
Luke Mably
18.
When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.
Gerry Beckley
19.
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
Eddie Trunk
20.
I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos.
Darynda Jones
21.
There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to it much anymore and I never listen to metal, so I am not very interested in music that is difficult to play.
Gregor Schwellenbach
22.
I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.
Cory Arcangel
23.
Basically I listen to just about everything except heavy metal.
Kristin Kreuk