Top 10 Confessions and Quotes from Metal Musicians
1'I'm not a great singer' - Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
2"Glam stands for Gay Los Angeles Metal" - Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
3"We wanna thank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year" - Lars Ulrich (Metallica)
4"Death is a once in a lifetime opportunity" - Marc "Xenoyr" Campbell (Ne Obliviscaris)
5'I fly airliners and in my spare time I sing a bit' - Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
6"We got married on 4th of July (to be easier for Ozzy to memorize it)" - Sharon Osbourne
7'I banged Bruce Dickinson's Wife' - Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe)
8"All television gives you is somebody else's life to watch" (Geoff Tate, Queensryche)
9'I'm not a singer' - James Hetfield (Metallica)
10"[When I was] in Iron Maiden, I was a young boy; I didn't know how to sing. I had no voice." - Paul Di'Anno
11'You can't say it all with just four notes' - Ritchie Blackmore on B.B. King
12"Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking" - Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
13"Although I have always been the clown of the class it didn't work out very well with the girls" - Tobias Sammet (Edguy, Avantasia)
14"We are with more aluminum" - Alice in Chains, on whether they are a heavy metal band
15"I drive like I drum - madly" - Cozy Powell (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, MSG)
16"I still feel like a drummer that likes to sing" - Todd La Torre (Queensrÿche)
17"We are taking great benefit from the performance of our loyal fans who really sing throughout the whole concert. That also makes my job a little easier" - Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian)
18"[Record companies] need to start realizing that they have got to come in as partners of the bands instead of being the pimps and we're their whores. That's the way that artists have been treated for far too long" - Jon Schaffer (Iced Earth)
19"Enslaved are really nice talkative alcoholics" - Tim Charles (Ne Obliviscaris)
20"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" - Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
21'When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off" - Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
22"During the performance of a 'clean falsetto' air stream runs up the spine and finds an almost straight way out to my nostrils. My jaw region is relaxed; I could even chew gum." - Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian)