Vinnie Paul Quotes

I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

I was such a big Kiss and Van Halen fan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X... all that stuff. I loved everybody.

Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

I've always been a fan of the '80s and, particularly, hair metal.

A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.

I love heavy metal, Metallica. I'm into Jefferson Starship and acid rock.

I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and Van Halen... all that kinds of stuff.

Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.

My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'

I really like proto-metal, so stuff like Pentagram is really great, and that's more in the vein of Sabbath and stuff like that.

I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.

I've been a huge Megadeth fan for years.

Bands like - even Kiss to a degree - bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi - I just think the days of those bands going out and selling ten or twelve, fifteen million records like they used to do back in the day, it's not happening.

I've actually got a Motley Crue channel on Pandora.

A lot of the metal bands that were around when Metallica put out 'The Black Album,' now they're playing clubs, and Metallica is playing stadiums.

What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part of the journey I'm on with Metallica, there's just a certain edge that needs to be there.