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The Mouths That Roared - 100 Great Metal Quotes from 2003 (51-75)
Robert Plant on The Osbournes: "I think it's kind of sadistic for the general public
and masochistic by the artist — it's called entertainment...there's obviously some
income there."
Phil Anselmo's response to Lars on touring with Metallica: "Give me a fuckin' break!
I'm Philip Anselmo. I'm not some newcomer to the game. There's no fuckin' way METALLICA
would do that, nor would they play a fuckin' show with PANTERA in the fuckin' States,
because they know what would fuckin' happen. We would fuckin' eat them alive! That's the
end of the fuckin' sentence. We would crush 'em."
Dave Grohl on touring with Zeppelin: "I learned to be a drummer by listening to the
ZEPPELIN catalog. The most important thing is that if they do a reunion tour, they find
the person most capable of filling in for John Bonham. Of course, I would cut off my cock
to have that gig."
Gene Simmons: "Here's the question: Once you have all the girls and all the money you
want, will you still get up at the crack of dawn and get in the ring? If you do, you're a
champion. If you don't, you're just about the fame and the glory."
Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante: ""I just think music, in general, is at an
all-time low. The past five years have been the worst time for music. There's not one bit
of originality. I don't want to come down on all that stuff, because some good bands came
out of all of that. But for the most part, no one had any identity."
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian on the music industry: "It's not going to get any better
until the whole system collapses."
Ripper Owens on Priest: "I pushed them to get (Halford) back. I'm a JUDAS PRIEST fan,
so I'm glad they can get along and do this. People have been calling up like there's been
a death in the family but I'm actually happy with the decision. My run was done."
Phil Anselmo on touring: "...it's better for me to play in front of a smaller
audience, a more intimate audience. It feels better. I'd rather play three sold-out nights
in a small fuckin' place than one sold-out night in a big, fuckin' giant place."
Lars on Fred Durst: "To me, I will not have Metallica and a bunch of second-rate
bands. It's gotta be the bans who are innovators, and whether you like him or you hate
him, Fred Durst is an innovator. Fred Durst is a fuckin' pioneer, and I will yell that
from every rooftop."
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian on fans: ""I think people in Europe are more
passionate about music...The kids here when they first start listening to radio are
bombarded with pop music and boy bands and whatever else is out there right now. In Europe
it's not like that. You get people who have more of an opportunity to use their own minds
and figure things out for themselves."
Ronnie Dio on Ozzy: "Ozzy's legacy is now incredibly tarnished...they have him as
some guy with an affliction. To see this happen...it's sad. But it's what he wants and
there's money involved. So who am I to say? It's just sad, because he's one of the guys
who invented heavy metal."
Great White's singer on Gene Simmons: "This is not a rock 'n' roll tragedy. It's an
American tragedy...Bands like KISS could donate the proceeds from one show and do more
than we could donate all year."
Lars on the "St. Anger" snare sound: "Let's say every hard rock record that
came out had a snare sound like 'St. Anger', right? Then all of a sudden, Metallica would
put a record out that had a snare sound like, say, I don't know, 'The Black Album',
everybody would sit there and go, 'What the fuck are they doing?' 'What's with this
fuckin' 'Black Album' snare sound?' 'Why doesn't it sound like the 'St. Anger'…?''
You know what I mean?!"
Phil Anselmo on touring: "Stage work is strengthening. Sweating from head to toe is
extremely good for you. Gets those toxins out of there. I dig the people. The fans. Oh
fuck to hear those screaming lunatics sing every goddamn word, stage dive, pitskanking,
bleeding...Jesus Fucking Christ! I envy the energy! Thank you bad asses."
Phil Anselmo on bands today: "As far as I'm concerned Pantera was extremely
influential in heavy metal. Then white kids started rapping over the top of the music. The
true rappers ought to be offended as well as the heavy-metal bands. Every genre ought to
have its purity. There's nothing to what the bands today are doing. They're Pantera
ripoffs with the cheesiest song progressions. Bands in the past had some style. Bands
today are instrumentally sub-par and sub-par in their ideas. I can hardly listen to them.
Paul Stanley on the KISS retiring after the Farewell Tour: "Life is about having the
option of changing your mind...A light went off in my head. I realized you can always go
home. If it was OK with the fans, there was no one else I had to consult."
Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante on low record sales in America of their new CD: "I
think that people [in America] are just stupid. They are not like the Europeans. The
Europeans fuckin' love it, ya know? They love their music — they're loyal. See, over
there, it's about the record, it's about the band. Over here it's about the fucking song.
... It just doesn't make sense to me sometimes. What happened here? It's sad."
Six Feet Under vocalist Chris Barnes on social issues: "...there should be another
opinion out there other than government-controlled media which is sent through the
airwaves and sent to everyone's homes through a little box that they worship like some
kind of religion. People shouldn't believe everything you see on that piece of
equipment."
Strapping Young Lad frontman Devin Townsend on sex: "I'm equally disgusted by both
men and women. Personally, I'm heterosexual because I'm with my wife and I love her, but
sex just isn't important enough to me to give it a whole lot of thought. Human beings are
gross. We're ugly fucking pink things. To a certain extent, it's really funny that a life
choice like where you're going to put your penis can be so significant in our society. On
my list of priorities, sex is — like — really, really low."
Arch Enemy singer Angela Gossow on sell-out accusations: "'This is my band — I
don't want to share it with nu-metal kids.' But we want to bring our music to everybody,
and we want people to love the music, buy our albums and support the band...Either a band
exists and they are going to need to make some money with it, or the band is not going to
exist anymore."
AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young on a knife-pulling incident during the group's 1977 tour
opening for Black Sabbath in Europe: "We were staying in the same hotel, and Geezer
was in the bar, crying in his bear, '10 years I've been in this band, 10 years — wait
till you guys have been around 10 years, you'll feel like us.' I said 'I don't think so.'
I was giving him no sympathy. He'd had many too many [drinks] and he pulled out this silly
flick knife."
Sammy Hagar on Eddie Van Halen: "He HAS lost touch. Otherwise, he'd be playing music.
I mean this guy is a great musician. Not only does he play unbelievable guitar, he plays
unbelievable keyboards of any kind and probably could play any instrument he puts his
hands on. And the guy hasn't played music for I don't know how long. Something is really
wrong."
Nevermore singer Warrel Dane on the music industry: "There are a lot of kids who are
playing in metal bands, and they don't realize how cutthroat the music business is. It can
totally destroy your faith in playing music. At some point you become a commodity and that
can be pretty scary. You do it because you love the music — you don't do it because
you want to be a businessman."
Tungsten singer Al Hodge to bands in the music industry: "...it’s 2003! Get a
lawyer to look over your contract you fucking dimwits!"
Disturbed singer Dave Draiman on stopping file sharing: ""This is not rocket
science. Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people
they're trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively
use the Internet ...It's the way of the future. You can smell it coming. Stop fighting it,
because you can't."
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