Quotes From Heavy Metal Artists

Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden): "If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off."

Lars Ulrich (Metallica): "Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth."

Dave Mustaine (Megadeth): "Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard."

Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead): "That was a great time, the summer of `71. I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it."

Rob Halford (Judas Priest): "There's two kinds of music: heavy metal and all the crap they play on radio and show on MTV"




James Hetfield (Metallica): "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."

Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath): "All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music."

Lita Ford (The Runaways): "I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best."

Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath & Dio): "Music, rock'n'roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everybody I know has their own generation."

Serj Tankian (System Of A Down): "Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can."

Scott Ian (Anthrax): " Why would heavy metal ever go away?"

More Quotes About The Beatles

Brian Wilson: "There's no outdoing The Beatles."

Noel Gallagher: "If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison."

Barry Gibb: "We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question."

Taylor Momsen: "The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best."

Brian May: "I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis."

Dave Grohl: "From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time."

Billy Preston: "The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?"

Alex Van Halen: "The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen."

Gene Simmons: "The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band."

Jerry Seinfeld: "The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into The Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end"

Annie Lennox Quotes

"The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question."

"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't."

"Whatever you do, you do out of passion."

"Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them."

"I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance."

"If people like your music you can't guarantee they're going to love you."



"I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want."

"The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in."

"When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you."

"A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues."

"I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free."

Sinead O'Connor Quotes

"Nobody gets between me and my microphone."

"The music business is corrupt. It's full of nothing but vampires and pimps."

"I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars."

"When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit."

"You cannot be a poppy in a tsunami. The more delicate and fragile you are, the tougher you have to act."




"I'm not a musical snob. 'Ooo Baby Baby' or whatever - those are as valid as 'Working Class Hero' or 'Imagine'. But there are times artists do need to stand up and not just be entertainers."

"I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It's just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker."

"The power of rock'n'roll to change things, to move people, is being murdered by all this worship of fame - Pop Idol, X-Factor, all this stuff."

"As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor."

Dolly Parton Quotes

"I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again."

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."



"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen."

"I look just the the girls next door...if you happen to live next door to an amusement park."

"I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker."

"After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her."

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb...and I also know that I'm not blonde."

"I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out."

"There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig."

"I'm just a simple country girl."

Great Quotes About Life

George Harrison: "If you don't know where you're going then any road will take you there."

Frank Zappa: "The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life."

Stevie Wonder: "You can't base your life on other people's expectations."

George Michael: "You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart."

Cyndi Lauper: "On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors."

Paul McCartney: "Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing."



Bob Dylan: "A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Diana Ross: "I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time."

Joan Jett: "Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything."

Tina Turner: "I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life."

John Lennon: "When I was five years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

Billy Joel: "If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."

Amy Winehouse Quotes

"I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier."

"There's no point in saying anything but the truth."

"Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen."

"I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do."

"If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had."

"I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl."

"I'm a positive, happy person, generally. The songs I've written are about some bad times in my life. I needed to make something good out of something bad."

"You discover music the most when it's music that no one tells you to listen to, that you find out for yourself."

"I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends."

Great Quotes About Love

Bob Marley: "The most beautiful curve on a woman's body is her smile."

Aretha Franklin: "Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off."

Pat Benetar: "Love is very complicated. It is so complicated and it's so worth it."

Carlos Santana: "There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save."

Jim Morrison: "That's what real love amounts to; letting a person be what he really is."




Sting: "There's no secret to a successful marriage. I love my wife. More important than that, I really like her."

Ice T: "Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."

Madonna: "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."

Stevie Wonder: "Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go."

John Lennon: "It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love
."