James Durbin Quotes

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

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.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

I always loved rock 'n' roll.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

My first concert was Pantera.

I'm a veteran of Ozzfest.

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

I was a total metal-head as a teen. I still love it, too.

I was not a metal fan.

I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.

Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.