Heavy Music Quotes:

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

- Glenn Tipton

topic: Night, Joy, Able, Judas, Judas Priest

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

- Peter Tork

topic: Heavy Metal, Pops, Music Is, Metal Music, Disco

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

- Phil Anselmo

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Eye, Half, Shapes, Through My Eyes, Heavy Music

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

- Luke Mably

topic: Mirrors, Vampire, Heavy Metal, Metal Music, Heavy Metal Music

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

- James Hetfield

source: Playboy Magazine, April 2001.

topic: Playing Music, Satisfaction, My Family, Good Living, Heavy Music

Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up”, p.244, Ballantine Books

topic: Men, Hair, People, Metal Music, Heavy Metal Music

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.

- Peter Steele

topic: Softball, Hate, Car, Heavy Music

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

- Ozzy Osbourne

topic: Mean, Rocks, Stuff, Hard Rock, Heavy Music

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

- Kerry King

source: Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. December 8, 2009.

topic: Inspire, World, Heavy Metal, Metal Music, Heavy Metal Music

Coming from heavy music too, it's really hard to have heavy music not sound too butthead-ish or jock-ish, and there's a fine line between Limp Bizkit and Nirvana - there's a fine line there, and it's terrifying.

- Aaron Bruno

topic: Sound, Lines, Jocks, Limp Bizkit, Heavy Music

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

- Lars Ulrich

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Metal Band, Heavy Music

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

- Tom Morello

topic: Hip Hop, Firsts, Hips, Metal Music, Heavy Metal Music

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

- Adam Rich

topic: Play, Heavy, Melody, Heavy Music

What I think of when I think of nu-metal: structured, heavy music that has a point. It's angry just like all the other music, but the bigger parts are bigger and the powerful parts are more powerful and the slow parts slower.

- Austin Carlile

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Heavy, Heavy Music

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.

- Fred Durst

topic: Different, Heavy, Aggressive, Heavy Music

If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and are digging deeper than they used to and understanding more abrasive and complex music and art. It's like being around an unfamiliar language long enough that it eventually begins to make sense.

- Jacob Bannon

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Art, Long, Understanding, Current Generation, Heavy Music

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

- James Iha

topic: Mean, Sound, Labels, Pop Bands, Heavy Music

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

- Ryan Adams

topic: Beautiful, Song, Moving, Different Kinds Of Music, Writing Songs