Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
Heavy Metal would not exist without Led Zeppelin, and if it did, it would suck.”
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“When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?”
Cliff Burton |
"We wanna get remembered for our music inspiring kids to get on the floor and beat the shit outta each other."
I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.
Ronnie James Dio |
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"I've been playing about 18 years and I started to get a style when I started teaching. People wanted to learn everybody's licks, and at first it was okay. Then I thought 'Wait a minute, you've got to get your own style.' So I started combining what they wanted to learn and just a bit of techhnique. You hear so many different people everyday, you find yourself in it, if you can understand that. You're teachinng everybody's licks all day. I never did that, because I never had a stereo. I never copped licks off records. I started when I was really young, when I was 7. I never got to cop records because I didn't have a record player. So by the time I got to teaching, I didn't want people to carry on doing that too long."
Randy Rhoads |
"IF YOU'RE GOING TO THROW BEER BOTTLES AT US, AT LEAST MAKE SURE THEY'RE FULL"
Dave Mustaine 
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Notable bands that you can hear on radio station
Metallica
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Motörhead
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Black Sabbath
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Slayer
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Dio
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Kiss
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Judas Priest
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Scorpions
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My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'
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Why would heavy metal ever go away?
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When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
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I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
Dimebag Darrell
The main element in heavy metal music is the driving power that the guitar, bass and drums produce through an amplifier. The “heavy” part is the distortion of the bass and lead guitar. Riffs, solos, sweep-picking and other fast playing tricks all make up what is known as heavy metal.
I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.
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What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.
Lars Ulrich
"Lemmy, how does a real man know if a woman is faking an orgasm?"
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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.
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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.
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Black Sabbath was the creation of four friends from the Birmingham, England area. Anthony Iommi, William Ward, Terence Butler, and John Osbourne were the founding members of the group and, to this day, are still cited as the four major members of Black Sabbath.
The band's first record contract came in 1969 after their live performances started to gain them notoriety throughout England. Phillips Records gave Black Sabbath their first opportunity to record an album, and they ended up releasing their first LP entitled "Black Sabbath" in 1970. The album made it into the United Kingdom's top-10 list, but when it was later released to the United States under the Warner Bros. label, it was only able to garner a top-40 ranking. |
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Maybe it's not on top of the charts, but we're still standing strong. So we'll be here forever. United and hard we stand.
Dimebag Darrell 
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Who started heavy metal music?
Answer: No particular person started heavy metal, rather, certain bands inspired it. Heavy metal evolved from blues rock and psychedelic rock. Bands like Led Zeppelin, Cream, and Deep Purple laid down the groundwork for heavy metal, however, they themselves are not heavy metal. The first band to be considered heavy metal even today is Black Sabbath, who released their first album in 1970. 
Headbanging:
The term "headbanger" was coined during Led Zeppelin's first US tour in 1969. During a show at the Boston Tea Party, audience members in the first row were banging their heads against the stage in rhythm with the music. Lemmy from Motörhead, however, said in an interview on the documentary The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years, that the term "Headbanger" may have originated in the band's name, as in "Motorheadbanger". Ian Gillan, frontman of Deep Purple, when asked if he invented headbanging, said, "That’s a definite possibility |
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
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