Words matter. These are the best Metal Quotes from famous people such as Yui Mizuno, Hideo Kojima, Andrew W.K., Amy Lee, Bill Ward, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: ‘What’s that?’
I don’t like necessarily that people think ‘Metal Gear’ defines me. I love ‘Metal Gear,’ don’t get me wrong. But as a creator, I really want to work on other projects, including new games.
Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.
When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.
I don’t know about all this ‘speed metal’ and everything… It’s all metal to me.
Given the weight of an Oscar statuette, one made out of solid gold would be worth $219,000. That twinkle in a winner’s eye would be more than just a realization that he or she is a decent actor; it would be the joy of holding a chunk of metal worth a new Lamborghini.
The energy of the metal is what I’ve always loved and the energy I do on stage with standup, I mean, I’m not Metallica, but I’ve always extremely attracted and driven by that energy and the thought-provoking lyrics and drive. That’s an attitude every standup show I go in. I go in to crush your face.
I love being on the road; I love traveling. I love interacting with the fans and friends and fans and metal on the way.
We’ve taken Japan’s ‘idol’ music genre of pretty girls singing and dancing and added ‘kawaii metal,’ which is totally new.
When it comes to influences, we are influenced not just by Japanese and overseas metal acts, but J-pop acts too. One Japanese rock band we’re particularly fond of is Seikima-II. We were attracted by their brand of devil imagery and of course, their high-quality musicianship.
If my skin is feeling a little dry, I use La Mer face cream. I also love their Eye Concentrate. It goes on with this little metal ball thing that’s very refreshing.
I’m a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of ‘Lost in Love’ and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!
I think it’s not only Babymetal’s sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of expressing this genre of music.
When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
Once, while exploring Seville Cathedral, I walked into a metal bar and gashed my head.
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.
Obviously, there’s not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I’m still trying to adjust to that.
Folk music has been our popular music… There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that’s not true.
Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric – it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
I’m not Christian. I didn’t meet Jesus. I met something that looked like it had come out of a ‘Heavy Metal’ comic.
If you write a country song, and it’s the best song you’ve ever written but throw it out because you’re a metal band, you’d be an idiot.
It’s perhaps easier to say what prog rock isn’t than what it is: it’s not three-minute pop songs, it’s not straightforward rock, metal, blues or jazz, but can have elements of all them and more. It’s a form that is on the boundaries of many different forms, that is open to all sorts of influences.
Short track is like metal rock. You kind of always got to be on your toes.
The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.
I see metal as really connected to tribalism. Like, even the way we dress and the way we love the music and are part of a movement, it’s like we’re part of a certain tribe, and we’re proud of that.
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
Venom was a joke in the ’80s, their heavy metal music sucked big time, and I really have no interest in them – not then, not now.
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I’m narrow-minded and a purist. I’d never mess with it.
We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it’s Judas Priest.
I loathe and detest heavy metal.
I could see hunks of metal and rocks sticking out of my legs.
I think it’s beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.
In high school the dream was to go on a stand-up tour and front a heavy metal band. I always had that in the back of my head.
Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with heavy metal, Van Halen, Motley Crue. The older I got, my tastes widened. I always felt an attraction to the attitudes of punk; also punk filmmakers, like Richard Kern.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills – unless it’s heavy metal. People do not like death.
A lot of the metal bands that were around when Metallica put out ‘The Black Album,’ now they’re playing clubs, and Metallica is playing stadiums.
In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can’t even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn’t have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it’s good for rock if there’s bigger bands.
Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
When I was a kid, I saw ‘Heavy Metal’ the movie, and my mind was blown. I loved the idea that you could have all these different stories in different styles that are linked together.
When we talk about ‘Firepower,’ we’re talking about the fire and power of heavy metal to prevail and endure difficulties. ‘Children of the Sun,’ is, to some extent, about climate change and the ecosystem… We want to deliver a message to the people without being too much of a teacher.
I don’t even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.
I never wanted to do rap-rock because it had been done loads in the ’90s, but I love hip-hop and I love metal.
The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.
Heavy metal to me is this cartoon idiom where people have their hair stuck-up all over the place dyed blonde with black roots showing through and Spandex trousers and chains around their neck, eating raw meat on stage. It just doesn’t mean anything to me.
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
On Sirius, I can find anything I want. They have about four or five different metal channels, rock channels; there’s a whole Elvis channel.
As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
In grade one and two, I was definitely into heavy metal and Satanic rock music, bands that had attributes that were quote-unquote ‘Satanic,’ even things like the Rolling Stones with ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’ and ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ but also like Motley Crue and Kiss and Alice Cooper.
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.
It’s about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.
I’m completely open about the fact that I don’t love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It’s got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
So with ‘Ascent,’ one of the things I wanted to do was not make it too remote from the reader, for it to be engaged with the human side and not just to be about the cold metal of planes and spacecraft.
I’m a standup comedian who can’t drive. I have never learned. I don’t trust my hand-eye coordination. You’re looking at someone who once dropped a cricket ball on to his own head during a routine catching practice; I don’t think it’s a great idea to have me in control of a high-speed metal death robot.
I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don’t like heavy metal.
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations – when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.
I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.
