Quotes About Band

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

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.

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

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

I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

If we're compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that's actually a pretty damn good compliment.

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.

It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.

When Lars said, 'We want you to be in Metallica,' I was blown away.

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.

I always say, 'Hey, I'm in Metallica, but I wasn't on the Black Album.'

I love Ozomatli, this L.A. band that makes great coffee. They are half American, half Mexican, their coffee's great, and they're very good friends.

On stage, I have my three band mates and my guitar in front of me, and mic stand and that's like your shield - it's genuinely amazing what having an instrument does for you, it's like your safety blanket, taking that away is really weird.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

The first band I was in out of college was a Celtic band, and I had to learn to sing with a microphone, because I'd never done that before. At Oberlin, I never used a mic for any kind of singing.

Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.

I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

I had a band when I was in middle school, but I was the drummer. I kind of thought if I was going to be in a band, I'd be the drummer. I'm innately drawn to rhythm. But we didn't have any shows. We just jammed in our parents' basement.

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.