Top 30 Maiden Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Maiden Quotes from famous people such as Billy Squier, Daisy Berkowitz, Chuck Schuldiner, Charles Hazlewood, Eddie Trunk, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.
Billy Squier
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band’s music.
Daisy Berkowitz
I was lucky to start playing guitar in the Eighties when so many great players were around to inspire me, like Yngwie Malmsteen, Van Halen and especially Dave Murray and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden.
Chuck Schuldiner
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
Charles Hazlewood
Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
Eddie Trunk
I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.
Dhani Harrison
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Miguel de Cervantes
The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden’s ‘Number of the Beast’ album.
Victor LaValle
For one year, I was Keith Mitchell Coogan on my headshots. The next year, I was just Keith Coogan. And I have gone by that ever since, maybe 1984 or 1985. That is my mother’s maiden name, and it was out of reverence for my grandfather.
Keith Coogan
We were about ready to go out on the road with Maiden, and Kerrang asked us to do an Iron Maiden tribute song. While we were home, we recorded that. And that was it.
Johnny Christ
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon
My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom’s maiden name. So it’s not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.
Christina Milian
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don’t do songs from outside people.
Bruce Dickinson
My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house.
Gillian Flynn
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot
I don’t have a bank account because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.
Paula Poundstone
Stark was my late Grandmother’s maiden name. When I joined the acting union in the UK ‘Oliver Jones’ was taken so I had to come up with something else!
Oliver Stark
I still do get a little bit nervous at the beginning of Maiden tours but that’s mainly because of the new material.
Steve Harris
I think everyone knows that I’m always the one that’s the busiest in Maiden. When we’re not touring or recording, I’m still doing loads of Maiden stuff – video editing and god knows what else – so I get a lot less downtime than the others.
Steve Harris
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Mason Cooley
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden’s cheek.
Heywood Broun
When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal – big, dumb rock music. There was a band called Diamond Head – they were basically the band that inspired Metallica. But I also liked bands like Saxon and Iron Maiden.
Steven Wilson
Whether it has been supporting Corby’s new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area.
Louise Mensch
I am very enthusiastic and positive about ‘Bailaras’ which is a maiden movie under my home production – Naughty Men Production.
Binnu Dhillon
I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.
Phil Anselmo
My mother’s last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.
Mathew Knowles
Well, it’s a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I’ll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.
Bruce Dickinson
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
Joan of Arc
I love direction. I met Roopesh Peethambaran and assisted him in his maiden venture, ‘Theevram’.
Tovino Thomas
We toured with Iron Maiden and we opened and they’d come in later and I didn’t have a lot of time to get to hang out with those guys. Whenever you did, whether it was sitting down at catering or something, you tried to take advantage and just hang out and talk and trade stories.
John Petrucci