Quotes About Heavy metal

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

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 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 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!

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.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

The most metal? Some would say Slayer, but I think they're a dreadful band. Unbelievably boring. Terrible. Apparently it's not metal to say that, but it's a personal opinion.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

The last time I really got into new music that wasn't heavy metal was probably like... TV on the Radio? I think that was it. That's the last time.

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

I love heavy metal, Metallica. I'm into Jefferson Starship and acid rock.

On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers

Venom was a joke in the '80s, their heavy metal music sucked big time, and I really have no interest in them - not then, not now.

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.

Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.

I like hard, aggressive music.

That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.

Hash, heroin, ham, hip-hop and heavy metal were all equally illegal, and just as accessible, if you knew who to call. 'I can get you bacon if you want,' offered Omid with the sneaky wink of a playground drug dealer. I almost felt I was disappointing him by being a vegetarian.

We went to this stupid heavy metal disco after the first gig – which was awful – and the group all started dancing to Deep Purple. I told them to sit down, have some dignity.

Today you hear people saying that we invented heavy metal with the song 'Black Sabbath' . But I've always had a bee up my arse about the term 'heavy metal'. To me, it doesn't say anything musically, especially now that you've got seventies heavy metal , eighties heavy metal , nineties heavy metal and new - millennium heavy metal – which are all completely different, even though people talk about them like they're all the same.