Top 70 Heavy Metal Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Heavy Metal Quotes from famous people such as Gerry Beckley, Ann Demeulemeester, Rufus Wainwright, Eddie Rabbitt, Steven Wilson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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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
For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.
Ann Demeulemeester
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills – unless it’s heavy metal. People do not like death.
Rufus Wainwright
I’m not saying there’s not talent in heavy metal and rap, but a lot of people are finding it’s just the same thing, over and over.
Eddie Rabbitt
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
I’m not Christian. I didn’t meet Jesus. I met something that looked like it had come out of a ‘Heavy Metal’ comic.
Richard Stanley
The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.
Paul Parker
From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings.
Suzuka Nakamoto
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
Dave Mustaine
There’s everybody in the world who is always trying, time and time again, to proclaim the death of rock, or hard rock and heavy metal. Not if I have anything to do with it, not if we have anything to do with it.
David Draiman
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.
Rob Halford
Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.
John Waite
Heavy metal is not usually my thing. But I love everything. I love good music, period.
Perez Hilton
I always dreamt of being in ‘Kerrang.’ That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over.
Julian Barratt
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it’s just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they’re playing with the same amount of ferocity. It’s not to say all jazz is like that.
Damien Chazelle
If you are a soul singer, you are a soul singer. If you are a heavy metal singer, then you are a heavy metal singer. What’s color got to do with it? I don’t go around thinking, ‘I sing soul music and I’m white.’ I just sing the way I feel.
Lisa Stansfield
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
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
Kurt Cobain
I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.
Lou Barlow
Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I’ve had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery… I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it’s how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that’s a wonderful thing.
Patrick Ness
At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.
Rivers Cuomo
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
Christopher Lee
I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy pop music and then rock, punk and heavy metal.
Lights
We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It’s a joy to be able to do it.
Glenn Tipton
There are gay and lesbian people in all walks of life, in all different types of professions. I just happen to be a gay man who sings in a heavy metal band.
Rob Halford
We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
Adrian Smith
Heavy metal is always going to be there. At its core, it’s all about a primitive connection we all need to keep in our lives.
Rob Halford
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.
Gary Moore
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 from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?
Ozzy Osbourne
Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.
Panos Cosmatos
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing – country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
Al Stewart
I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, bu

I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the Beatles and the Stones, I tended to affiliate myself with those projects.
Billy Squier
I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don’t like heavy metal.
Carlos Carvalhal
I wasn’t that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.
Phil Anselmo
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 metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
Peter Steele
‘Epicloud’ is the first record that I felt confident enough to include all those things on one record, so it goes between melodic hard rock to schizophrenic heavy metal to country to really ambient stuff, and it’s all in one place.
Devin Townsend
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
The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.
Fred Schneider
I really felt like we were gonna be The Rolling Stones of heavy metal, and we could have been.
Vinnie Paul
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.
Phil Anselmo
I despise lackadaisical behavior when it comes to our music. I mean, this is heavy metal music. You must be involved. You’re required to be involved.
David Draiman
I listen to heavy metal thanks to my son. When I argue with him on the kind of music he is listening to, he says, ‘listen to it.’ I listen and think well that is not so bad!
Zeenat Aman
I was always into classical music and opera because I played the piano as I went through school and was very interested in Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals and stuff like that. That changed into heavy metal at around the age of 14 or 13, and I dropped the piano and started to play the guitar.
Kristian Nairn
To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it’s Judas Priest.
Glenn Danzig
I don’t think there’s any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it – Jimi did it. He’s certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.
Joe Bonamassa
Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it’s surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like you know what you’re doing. Releasing and re-loading magazines is difficult when you’re asked to do it quickly and efficiently.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
I never thought in my whole life of becoming a heavy metal singer, but it just happened because I took the challenge.
Tarja Turunen
One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
Victor LaValle
Heavy metal to me implies a relentless, pounding, hitting-people-over-the-head music. Trend setters tend to dismiss it as basic and simple, but all the time that little trends keep coming and going, the Bob Segers, Bruce Springsteens and the Billy Squiers keep staying.
Billy Squier
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.
Reggie Watts
The Pandoras began as a ’60s punk group. Then they went pop, then metal. When they went metal, I quit because I hate heavy metal music and I wanted to write my own songs.
Kim Shattuck
I loathe and detest heavy metal.
Butch Trucks
I guess that I’m primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of ‘Frankenstein’ being such a heavy song – you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
Edgar Winter