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?"

Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

"To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory."

"I knew it was time to get off reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted."

"I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night."

"I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister."

"The idea of a band nowadays is five pretty boys, one with a tattoo, one with a shaved head, and on and on."

"I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat, but that's OK, the bat had to get Ozzy shots."


"One of my greatest regrets is that I urinated on the Alamo."

"The lifestyle I've been living for the last thirty years, I could have been dead a thousand times."

"My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk."

"To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild."

"I don't consider myself a great singer, but I have a connection with the audience."

"Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most."

"Could be worse. I could be Sting."