Vinnie Paul Quotes

It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.

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

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

When you talk about *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys - we were like the New Kids, and New Kids were like the Bee Gees. But Girl Radical will be the first ones, and that's a crazy idea. That's what got us so excited.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

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

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.

One thing I love about the Grammys is that they love to recognize old, risky music.

Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of show business.

Sure, some tracks are not as good as others, but we've written some really strong, classic stuff, like 'The Number of the Beast,' 'Hallowed Be Thy Name,' and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'

Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That's who Babymetal aspires to become some day.

Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.

I think rock 'n' roll, in a way, has been dead for a long time.

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.

There's always a spot, any time we make a new record, where I literally go back to Judas Priest and Motorhead because you have to. You have to go back and understand where this all started for you and keep reminding yourself of that.

Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest.

I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?

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

There are people who take on different objectives and missions in life. When you grow older, there's a a void - and right now, I'm filling a space where a lot of old rock, grime, hip-hop, punk artists left a vacant space.

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

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

We're never gonna see bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath again. It's over.

Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.

More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.