Quotes About Passion

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

I am a closet metal fan.

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well, I'm going to be the heavy-metal comedian.'

There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.

We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don't care about people who don't think we're true metal. We hope to change their minds. I have total faith.

I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.

We're a rock n' roll band. We play heavy metal music. And we want to give you a great time. That's basically how it all boils down.

I think my heart will always be made of metal, but it would be ignorant of me and kind of foolish to ignore the other emotional connections you can make in all kinds of music.

That's where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do - most of my style comes straight from death metal.

People get into metal and they don't drift away from it. They might have families and move away a little, but they certainly don't forget about it.

I think that metal has always been, in my opinion, the most passionate form of music, and it only makes sense to actually be passionate about what you're saying when you're delivering music to people, whether it's through an album or for a live show.

Metal fans have a connection. There is something there; just like the wrestling world, they are die hard about wrestling, and it's that passion that makes you enjoy what you do. That is why I go to metal shows; you watch these dudes on stage just shredding and letting loose. You can't help but love it.

I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.

My dad raised me on metal, but my first serious love was hip-hop.

I go to metal concerts as well as classical concerts, and I love both of them.

I never thought in my whole life of becoming a heavy metal singer, but it just happened because I took the challenge.

I was really into metal when I was growing up. It was just something I thought I could do and wanted to try.

We love metal.

And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.

I listen to a lot of metal. I'm like a teenager - I make playlists with, like, 200 bands on them.

I'm a family guy who grew up with metal, and even though I'm domesticated I still have this in me.