Johnny Christ Quotes

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

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

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come over, and there would be a jam session with everyone playing jazz.

I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.

One of the advantages of playing in a club is that even with bass and drums, the atmosphere remains intimate with the audience.

A fantasy of mine is being pulled up onstage by one of my favorite bands and singing or playing an instrument with them.

It's been an incredible experience, playing with Twisted Sister, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, jamming with Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and the list goes on and on and on.

In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.

Slayer is one of my favorite bands of all time, and to be on a tour with them is absolutely a dream come true.

I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.

I'm a veteran of Ozzfest.

To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.

We were about ready to go out on the road with Maiden, and Kerrang asked us to do an Iron Maiden tribute song. While we were home, we recorded that. And that was it.

We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.

I was part of a metal and rock band, and I performed in front of 3000 to 4000 people for many years. I was the loudest mouth up there on stage. We would be screaming, head-banging and mass venting. We would all vent our feelings together, which is ideal as compared to participating in political and social forums, and I never felt any restrictions.

Widespread Panic discovered a couple of my songs and started doin' 'em on the gigs. They'd take a song and expand it and everybody plays a long time and people really like that. But I made my living as a songwriter so I try to get to singin' and get it over with.