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Quotes About Metal

Another howl broke from the tent downstream, this one sounding more like pieces of metal being violined against each other than an issue from any organic throat.
~ Tim Powers
The spent shell come out the .243 shining like a bright idea.
~ Tim Winton
Seattle rain smells different from New Orleans rain... New Orleans rain smells of sulfur and hibiscus, trumpet metal, thunder and sweat. Seattle rain, the widespread rain of the Great Northwest, smells of green ice and sumi ink, of geology and silence and minnow breath.
~ Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume
I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.
~ Kerry King
That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.
~ Kid Rock
No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed to almost vanish when seen edge on. There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing and a ghost light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew that it was sharper than any razor.
~ George R.R. Martin
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
~ Samuel Butler
The wood's for friendship, the metal for love." He waited until Eve opened the lid to reveal the two silk-lined compartments within. "One part is for your memories, the other for your wishes.
~ J.D. Robb
My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.
~ James Durbin
I have very different kinds of songs - there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are different kinds of styles, so not every musician can play both types of music.
~ Tarja Turunen
I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out 'Depeche Mode.'
~ Brian Posehn
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.
~ Floor Jansen
B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone's going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you." Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible.
~ T.A. Pratt
It comes to him with the clarity of a sound, a neat small chink like metal hitting stone.
~ Tana French
i try not to think of myself as a person but a metal object, built suddenly by machines in complete darkness something impossible to hurt with a shovel
~ Tao Lin
I have journeyed all the way to the edge of the world, and seen the solid chromium wall that extends from the ground up into the infinite sky.
~ Ted Chiang
People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.
~ Sam Kean
I don't think there will ever be a band that compares to Pantera. In my book, they are the icon metal band of all time. Their catalog speaks for itself.
~ Ivan Moody
Starting in junior high school, through high school, I was very into metal or black metal and death metal specifically.
~ Andrew W.K.
I'm not a big metal fan. I love and respect the musicianship, which is spectacular.
~ Steven Adler
Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.
~ Chuck Schuldiner
I feel that Babymetal, it's one of my duties to pass down to future generations just how amazing metal music is, and hopefully they can put their own spin on what metal music is to them.
~ Moa Kikuchi
When it actually came to everyone clamoring to see the medal and talking about the experience, I began to feel empty inside. I started to feel that this piece of metal was worth more than I was as a person, and I think this began a spiral for me.
~ Stephanie Labbe
and he had a Boston accent that could scrape the rust from a manhole cover.
~ Neal Stephenson