Suzuka Nakamoto Quotes

My music has been called heavy metal, but that's not an accurate description. I'd rather call it articulate rock because it expresses many feelings and emotions.

I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.

I hope everyone can appreciate the wonderful aspects of metal music.

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'

The first time I heard Kiss, I knew that was the type of music I was attracted to.

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

For me, 'Far Beyond Driven' just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.

I like songs that you can have both the physical release and an emotional release.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.