Rob Halford Quotes

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is.

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

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

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.

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.

We've never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.

Heavy metal to me implies a relentless, pounding, hitting-people-over-the-head music. Trend setters tend to dismiss it as basic and simple, but all the time that little trends keep coming and going, the Bob Segers, Bruce Springsteens and the Billy Squiers keep staying.

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.

'Master of Reality' rules; it's one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it - and some of the sexiest riffs as well.

From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings.

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

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

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

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

I've often talked about metal being the underdog in rock n' roll music.

Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.

Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

I was really into metal when I was growing up. It was just something I thought I could do and wanted to try.

Our sound is really hard metal but looks cute, and in some parts of the song the lyrics are really cute.

The metalcore has been left behind. It's not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it's obviously not the direction we would write songs in.

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.