Tobias Forge 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.

Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

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

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

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.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

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.

What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction.

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

Rock n' roll is the Devil's music.

I lie more with drums and the more heavy and darker aspects of music.

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

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

When you put the guitars over the 808, it just makes it grittier and grimier. It's just different.

Pighammer' is my pure vision of what I want to do, but at the same time, if you like Static-X, you will love 'Pighammer.'

My first concert was Pantera.

We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.

I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.

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.

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.

I love playing drums and helping out.