Quotes About Rock

Heavy metal is immortal, but we're not.

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

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

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.

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

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.

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

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.

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 don't know what genre you would put us into, and I'm always telling people that. When I'm trying to explain In This Moment's sound to them, all I can say is that its diverse-sounding, with influences such as metalcore's breakdowns, metal in general and some melodic rock.

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.

I grew up an '80s metal guy.

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

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

With Metallica, it's hard. I tend to like it all, but the older stuff, when we get into the deeper cuts, it really excites me personally.

My first gig with Metallica was at San Quentin State Penitentiary.

I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I was listening to a lot of dude bands - Guns N' Roses and Metallica, all that stuff.

I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

I don't need anything to get me up at the gym other than 'Metallica' and 'AC/DC'.