Quotes About Music

Some people dig jazz, some people dig classical music, some people dig rock. Everyone is so concerned about who they like. They always say, 'This guy is the best,' 'No, this guy is the best.' But I think everyone is great. I really don't have barriers to any type of music. I could listen to everything from metal to classical music to anything else.

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.

The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

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.

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.

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

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.

I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.

I think metal fans are more loyal than other fans, and they are often more inclined to collect the albums of their favorite bands.

'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.

Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take 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.

When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.

So many bands would say that they were alternative, or they were this or that... 'Heavy metal' was a pretty uncool word after about 1992; it was almost like, 'Stay away.' But it didn't bother us one bit. And our fans were the best ever.

Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live band.

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.

My music has been called heavy metal, but that's not an accurate description. I'd rather call it articulate rock because it expresses many feelings and emotions.

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.

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.

I agree that it's absurd to call a category of music 'female-fronted metal,' because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don't sound anything alike.

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