Phil Anselmo Quotes

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

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

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

Rock music is niche.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

Give metal a chance!

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 don't listen to a ton of rock music.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!

In the real world, people just get on with their lives. And that's where AC/DC come in.

Capital Cities - the rock group - I'm a huge fan of theirs.