Varg Vikernes Quotes

The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

There's everybody in the world who is always trying, time and time again, to proclaim the death of rock, or hard rock and heavy metal. Not if I have anything to do with it, not if we have anything to do with it.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

I believe in rock and roll and heavy music in general.

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

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

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

To me, rock n' roll is rock n' roll. I try to think of it as that. To me, Funkadelic and Metallica exist in the same world.

I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.

I think it's not only Babymetal's sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of expressing this genre of music.

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

No... I don't like Slayer.

To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.

I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

There's always a need for our kind of music. It's an outlet. You can only listen to so much pop and you just have to listen to something heavy.

Metal music is a very fan-oriented, fan-protected music - very sacred.

Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.

I could be just as happy playing a Beatles song as I am when I'm thrashing out the double bass stuff with Adrenaline Mob.