Quotes About Music

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

We didn't want it to end up in discussions where we would talk about whether this song needed to be more metal, whether I needed to scream more in that song or whether I shouldn't sing quite as much in those songs because metalheads wouldn't like that.

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 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!

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

I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.

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

My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.

I don't think we're metalcore. To me, metalcore is more like hardcore-influenced metal, with lots of breakdowns. I think we're a lot more diverse sounding than that.

The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

We believe that many people who already like metal and those who like other genres will be accepting to this new type of metal.

Heavy metal is not usually my thing. But I love everything. I love good music, period.

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.

In high school the dream was to go on a stand-up tour and front a heavy metal band. I always had that in the back of my head.

Volbeat is one of those bands, where as soon as I hear them, I know who it is. It sounds like Elvis - backed by a Metal band.

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

I grew up an '80s metal guy.

I don't know about all this 'speed metal' and everything... It's all metal to me.

I like to share my metal with other musicians. It's very cool.

We're not, obviously, as rich as Metallic, but we don't have to worry about money.

Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands - Metallica is one - that broke through.

Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That's who Babymetal aspires to become some day.