Words matter. These are the best Glenn Danzig Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 a little kid watching horror movies, if you only got to see the monster for the last two minutes of the movie, I thought that movie pretty much sucked.
I don’t even listen to music on the road, and if I did, it would be classical or whatever, something to chill me out.
I hadn’t done a photo cover in a while, and I decided to do a take on the ‘Pin Ups’ cover, but do it in skull face and have the girl in skull face. People seem to dig it.
I’m just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won’t be any more touring.
I don’t see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.
Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend’s house on fire accidentally.
You’d be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I’m even surprised, but it’s cool. That’s the reason it’s still around.
While I am here, I want to maximize my time on this planet, you know.
The occult – what do you mean, Jesus? That’s occult to me. It’s so far-fetched, it’s ridiculous.
For me, it shouldn’t just be a live show: it should be an experience. It should be some kind of crazy, tribal, exhausting experience.
I love the energy, and I just love watching people lose their minds and be happy and exhilarated. There is nothing like it.
I know kids like Beavis and Butt-head.
Whether I’m doing music or I’m walking down the street or I’m in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I’m buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it’s the same me.
I don’t like a lot of drama on the road – I don’t like prima donnas.
I love giving the energy and getting the energy back. There is nothing like it.
The choruses are important for me. I want to say something, and sing-along is great.
Comics are printed on paper, which is expensive, making it tough to stay in business.
I’ve seen a bunch of the ‘Portlandia’ episodes, and they’re pretty hilarious.
I try to work out, but a lot of hotels don’t have gyms anymore, so I always try to find a local gym where there’s not a ton of ‘roid-heads, ’cause I can’t stand them. It’s tough.
We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks – maybe four or five of those a year – and that’s what we do now.
My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.
However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the ’90s. I was just talking to someone that I am hiring to bring on the tour who said that, when he was at the funeral, that Eddie Van Halen came and put his striped guitar in the coffin. That’s a pretty big deal.
It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.
It’s what’s missing, I think, from most music – the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.
Wars have always started over religion.
I don’t really go to the beach.
Back in the days, we had to work with a shoestring budget. We had a movie screen, and we’d show movie trailers on them, and then we’d rip through it and started playing. Now we have a little money to play with to do a cool stage set.
It’s annoying when someone’s in front of you driving ten miles an hour, and you’re like, ‘Okay, today,’ and someone else is on the side of you, so you can’t pass them, and when you finally do pass them and they are texting, the laser cannons just come out and disintegrate that car.
Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.
CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I’m sure they’ll come out with a better format someday.
We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.
I’ve always tried to expand what heavy or loud music was and where it can go and what it can do.
Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books… you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.
I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.
The most rebelliousness I see now is coming out of WikiLeaks and D.C. Leaks and BlackListed News.
Some of the best sing-along stuff you’ll ever hear is Gary Glitter.
I’m a workaholic, and so I’ve always got to be doing stuff.
When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what’s going to happen.
When I started Samhain, I remember a producer telling me that I had a real band now.
Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don’t really know.
I just told you I wasn’t a Satanist.
Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it’s slow.
I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don’t like, and still feel comfortable about it.
I don’t think anyone in my family was funny.
Anyone who knows me or my past knows that I never walk away from a fight.
I like albums. I like holding them, seeing what they’re all about, you know? I like reading liner notes. Even if it’s a CD, you’re getting kind of an idea of what the band is coming from. Or what they want you to think they’re coming from. I like that.
People don’t realize that they’re being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.
My image is dark and sombre. It fits my personality. The problem I always had with the people in the Misfits was that it was a put-on. You wouldn’t see those guys walking around like that.
I don’t think any punk bands really ever got their due.
I don’t follow trends. I just do what I like doing.
Yeah, now we publish whenever we feel like it.
But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.
If there’s going to be another Misfits record, I’d probably have to write the stuff.
I don’t know that I’m not normal, because usually, when I tell people the things I do, either their jaw drops or they look at me shocked, but I’m sure I do normal things – everyone eats, that kind of stuff.
It’s pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.
My view on Democrats is that they’re fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You’re not allowed to say anything they don’t agree with. You’re not allowed to do anything.
If you’re a music fan, you think these artists will be here forever, but you should enjoy them while they’re here, because you never know what will happen.
When I grew up as a kid, a part of my life – I grew up in Boston near Revere Beach, at my grandma’s, and she would take me to the beach.