“A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”
“I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.”
“I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”
“I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.”
“I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.”
“I won’t eat anything green.”
“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
“I’m so happy because today I found my friends - they’re in my head.”
“I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man - they’ve always been a threat to me.”
“If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!”
“If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.”
“It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”
“Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock”
“Rather be dead than cool. ”
“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
“The worst crime is faking it.”
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. ”
- Kurt Cobain
”Who’s the typical Slayer fans???…The Ugliest Kid on the Block”
- Tom Araya
“I’m always using a towel around my head. Airports don’t worry about me.”
“I think it’s probably the safest time to fly in recent history, with all this passing through tight security and stuff.”
“I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.”
“I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I’m saying - exactly where I’m coming from.”
“When something irritates me, I don’t go home and write; I just don’t do that”
- Kerry King
“Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.”
- Gene Simmons
“Everyone elses reality can go fuck itself”
-Justin K. Broadrick
“I can’t sight read that”
-Ray Charles
I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.”
- Britney Spears
“I’m kind of a huge asshole and….”
“At least I got to fuck his girlfriend before he took my job — how do I taste, Kirk?
“People in the music business, in America, are talking bad about Bush…you know what? Shut the fuck up! You’re a musician; you don’t know a thing about running a country! If there would have been a better man to run the States right now, we would have picked him, it’s a democratic process. There are a couple of guys who run for office, everybody picks him, he goes to the next level. Shut up, he’s the fucking president! There’s gonna be an election, if you don’t like him go for the other guy. Don’t sit back there and just piss and moan. I see all these guys like Michael Moore going off and I’m like, ‘Dude, you don’t have a fucking idea about what you’re talking about.’”
“I think I’d make a better president than George Bush. I’ll tell you what, George Bush and Dick Cheney have been to jail more times than I have, and I used to shoot heroin, now what does that tell you?”
“It wasn’t enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.”
“I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.”
“Pop and metal aren’t friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.”
“All bands eventually break up because of one or more of the four P’s: power, property, prestiege, pussy.”
“The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful… or fun for that matter.”
“I do have a feeling about bands that cannot get it on, … When I was a kid, I had guitar heroes: Jimmy Page, Michael Schenker, Angus Young. Hot players. You can’t name one guitar player in any of the new bands that is a virtuoso.”
-Dave Mustaine
“Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.”
“I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!”
“Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn’t mean you have to use them all in a solo.”
“Kirk Hammett, lead guitar and attempted vocals”
- Kirk Hammett
“I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that’s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.”
“Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.”
“They say military have the so-called `secret intelligence` — this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I`ve never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.”
“There were these horses in a field. They were talking to me.”
“I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy`s dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I`ve always sold out, so who`s saying it`s all over?”
“The only black magic Sabbath ever got into was a box of chocolates.”
“Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most”
“Dogs smoke in France”
“I have no regrets except that I wasn’t up to keep Randy from getting on that plane.”
-Ozzy Osbourne
“I have the distinction of being called a media whore by Courtney Love.”
“After all, in today’s music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.”
“We’re just four guys and we are enjoying what we’re doing with Tool.”
“Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.”
“We’re five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle. ”
“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.”
“Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.”
“I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour. ”
“Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily.”
“A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. ”
“I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.”
“I can’t be a legend yet. I’m not dead. ”
- Maynard James Keenan
“Most musician write music from the heart, ours come from our groin.”
-Peter Steele
“A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do.”
“Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They’re going to be the same way that I am. They’re going to be the same way our fans are. They’re going to be pissed.”
“Find out what’s really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.”
“Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults? ”
“Marilyn Monroe wasn’t even her real name, Charles Manson isn’t his real name, and now, I’m taking that to be my real name. But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.”
“People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.”
“The burden of originality is one that most people don’t want to accept. They’d rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they’re supposed to like, what they’re supposed to buy, and what they’re supposed to laugh at.”
“The word ‘Antichrist’, to me, is the collective disbelief in god.”
“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”
“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”
“When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”
- Marilyn Manson
“I wanted to escape Small Town USA. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you`re bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You`re almost taught to realize it`s not for you.”
“I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I`m shy and don`t know what to say.”
“I write most of my songs when I`m in a bad mood.”
“Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.”
“Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.”
“An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.”
“While I was working on Downward Spiral, I was living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Then one day I met her sister. It was a random thing, just a brief encounter. And she said: “Are you exploiting my sister’s death by living in her house?” For the first time, the whole thing kind of slapped me in the face. I said, “No, it’s just sort of my own interest in American folklore. I’m in this place where a weird part of history occurred.” I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister from a senseless, ignorant situation that I don’t want to support. When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, “What if it was my sister?” I thought, “Fuck Charlie Manson.” I went home and cried that night. It made me see there’s another side to things, you know?”
- Trent Reznor
“Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.”
“Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”
“There is no hell. There is only France.”
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
“If we can’t be free at least we can be cheap.”
“There will never be a nuclear war; there’s too much real estate involved.”
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”
“You drank beer, you played golf, you watched football - WE EVOLVED!”
“You have just destroyed one model XQJ-37 nuclear powered pansexual roto-plooker….and you’re gonna have to pay for it.”
“Interviewer: “So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?”
FZ: “You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”““Without deviation from the norm, ‘progress’ is not possible.”
“Who are the brain police?”
“There are more love songs than anything else.
If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.”“Hey, you know something people? I’m not black, but there’s a whole lots a times I wish I could say I’m not white.”
“Most people wouldn’t know good music if it came up and bit them in the ass.”
“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
“There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!”
“Let’s not be too rough on our own ignorance, it’s what makes America great.”
“May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.”
- Frank Zappa
“Don’t hate the media, become the media.”
“For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.”
“I didn’t really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.”
“I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?”
“If you love god, burn a church.”
“Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.”
“Respecting other people’s cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It’s indefensible.”
“This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I’ll never run out of subjects for songs.”
“You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.”
- Jello Biafra
Notes“Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.”
“I don’t hate women…they just sometimes make me mad.”
“I don’t want them once they turn 18.”
“I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me.”
“I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?”
“It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who took up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.”
“Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn’t be thinking about”
“When I say I’ll murder my baby’s mother, maybe I wanted to, but I didn’t. Anybody who takes it literally is ten times sicker than I am.”
“We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.”
“Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor? I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto, I’d say I lived in the ‘hood.”
“A lot of truth is said in jest.”
“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”
“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.”
“I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.”
“I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.”
“I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.”
“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”
“I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.”
“If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something. ”
“My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.”
“Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion”
“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”
“Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.”
“When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.”
“Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.”
- Eminem