Quotes About Music

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

Dance routines for 'Meta Taro' are easy to remember, so this is a song for every generation from little kids to seniors to enjoy our shows by dancing together. I hope the song will be a gateway into metal music for the non-metal audience.

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.

I agree that it's a macho world, metal, but it's also a very, very social world, where people are loving music in respect for one another, female or male.

I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.

As a female in metal, I'm going to get ostracized one way or another. So, if I'm going to have people hating me because I'm a female in metal, I might as well get people loving me because I'm a female in metal, too.

Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.

Metal music is a very fan-oriented, fan-protected music - very sacred.

I was not a metal fan.

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

I like thrash metal and black metal, stuff like that.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

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

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

Give metal a chance!

I am a closet metal fan.

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

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

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.

The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

Metal isn't necessarily aggressive. There's metal that's contemplative, there's metal that's sad, and there's metal that's exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.