Quotes About Music

On Christmas, when I was 13, my mom got me my first laptop. I downloaded it, FruityLoops, cause I had heard about it, and started messing around.

If I'm being honest, I was messing up on every other level in my life growing up - whether it was in school or in my jobs. I was always distracted by my love for music.

Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.

It's different from music because music is like going deep down into soul, like scooping out all the difficult, beautiful, messy stuff and putting it into songs. Writing is more like playing for me.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

I met Panchamda for the first time when I was just 17 years old.

The great thing about dancing is it's a way to get close to a beautiful woman you have never met.

The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

Heavy metal is immortal, but we're not.

We did some shows - Soulfly played for the Marines twice and it was great meeting those guys. A lot of them are heavy metal fans and go to war areas like Iraq and Afghanistan and listen to their metal. I'm glad that my music has somehow helped them get through that at least a little bit.

A collaboration with Rob Halford, the 'Metal God,' has always been my dream. I never imagined that dream would come true!

I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.

There seems to sometimes be an entire genre called 'female-fronted metal.'

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

What it really comes down to, especially in metal, is that the bass needs to cut through, so you go to the pick for that effect. But when you have a certain feel about the music and really dig in to get a big growl, you have to go with the fingers, because you're not going to get it with a pick.

When we first started out, we had no idea what metal music was all about. But now we listen to everything from cute songs to all sorts of metal music.

Our sound is really hard metal but looks cute, and in some parts of the song the lyrics are really cute.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

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.

Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.