Phil Anselmo Quotes

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

Music is forever changing.

We didn't want to change who we are. We're not going to sit there and go, 'Let's be a rap band now.'

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'

Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them.

I don't trust songs that can be played at a kid's party and a club at the same time. I just don't think it's right. There's something reptilian about that.

I think that, as well as Strapping Young Lad kind of having the name for themselves based on brutality and aggression, I think there's also something to be said to the fact that every Strapping record is different. They're all different.

Fans tend to think that if you fall in love with an artist... and then he gets bigger, and he grows, and he starts to make a different sound, 'He's changing on us.' But with me, I created all types of sounds from the get go, so you can never say I'm changing; you can never say I'm going mainstream or I'm selling out.

I always put my best into our live performances and most of all it is always important for us to keep true to what we do as BABYMETAL.

The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.

As far as using electronics in my music, I have to do that as honestly as possible. Also, I have a broad range of listeners from a classical music base, as well as people, like me, who listen to a lot of different music. So I'm mindful of letting my sitar playing remain at the center of what I do.

I knew that if I were ever in a band it would be all about being heavy and dark.

When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time, we caught crap about it from some of our old fans. They thought we were deserting our roots or our old style or whatever.

Ultimately it's just music - whether I'm catering to the Bollywood audience or the indie audience. I just approach every type of music the way I am, and how my personality is.

The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem.

Democratic foursomes don't work in the '70s like they did in the '60s, when there were fewer musical directions.