These metal quotes will inspire you. Metal, any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides especially.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging metal quotes, metal sayings, and metal proverbs.
Best Metal Quotes
- “Heavy metal is immortal, but we’re not.” ~ Rob Halford
- “Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.” ~ Vijender Singh , Metal quotes life
- “Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why is metal a conductor of electricity, and wood is not, but you’re more likely to be struck by lightning when standing under a tree? These are questions that require science to answer.” ~ Gza
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“If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we’d be a lot better off.” ~ Bruce Dickinson
- “Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.” ~ Robert South
- “Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn’t even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that’s been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.” ~ MC Ren
- “Every day is a good day above ground, and especially being able to play metal and being able to your craft and everything. You’ve gotta respect that, because it’s something that can be taken away from you really quick.” ~ Joey Jordison
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“Heavy metal is always going to be there. At its core, it’s all about a primitive connection we all need to keep in our lives.” ~ Rob Halford
- “From the beginning, I felt that Heavy Metal is not just about music but also something that you feel with your heart. It is music that helps you express your emotions and feelings.” ~ Suzuka Nakamoto
- “Lowell I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.” ~ Henry Bessemer
- “I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it’s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.” ~ Peter Steele
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“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.” ~ James Russell
- “Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It’s not what I’m into at all.” ~ Chuck Schuldiner
- “I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs… I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven’t been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.” ~ Corey Taylor , Metal quotes love
- “Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric – it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.” ~ Emile Galle
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“I loathe and detest heavy metal.” ~ Butch Trucks
- “After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. ‘Let’s install metal detectors and give guns to teachers’ Let’s crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let’s buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.” ~ Bill Dedman
- “I’m a standup comedian who can’t drive. I have never learned. I don’t trust my hand-eye coordination. You’re looking at someone who once dropped a cricket ball on to his own head during a routine catching practice; I don’t think it’s a great idea to have me in control of a high-speed metal death robot.” ~ Nish Kumar , Metal quotes death
- “I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football.” ~ Hank Williams Jr.
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“I wore a ‘Black Metal’ Venom T-shirt once, in January 1993, to promote black metal, and I regret having done that ever since.” ~ Varg Vikernes
- “In grade one and two, I was definitely into heavy metal and Satanic rock music, bands that had attributes that were quote-unquote ‘Satanic,’ even things like the Rolling Stones with ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’ and ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ but also like Motley Crue and Kiss and Alice Cooper.” ~ Tobias Forge
- “I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.” ~ Jackie Chan
- “To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it’s Judas Priest.” ~ Glenn Danzig
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“I have this weird allergy where metal can’t touch my skin.”~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
- “When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my city, and I called every hotel in the Yellow Pages asking for a room by the name of their manager in hopes of meeting the band. After two or three hours of calling hotels, I got through, and the manager’s brother answered the phone.” ~ Steve-O
- “The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke – the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.” ~ Corey Taylor
- “By trade I am a metal fabricator, so I have a degree in custom automotive fabrication.” ~ Jessi Combs
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“I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.” ~ Christopher Lee
- “In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can’t even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn’t have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.” ~ Ville Valo
- “I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.” ~ Ben Folds
- “I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.” ~ Audrey Tautou
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“The misunderstanding out there is that we are a ‘hard rock’ band or a ‘heavy metal’ band. We’ve only ever been a rock n’ roll band.” ~ Angus Young
- “All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the ’70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’90s. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?” ~ Neil Young
- “Folk music has been our popular music… There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that’s not true.” ~ Shankar Mahadevan
- “I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don’t listen to is country and heavy metal. I love Marvin Gaye, John Legend, Al Green, Fat Freddys Drop, Sade, Grace Jones, Bazoo Bijou, Prince, John Lennon, London Grammar, Daft Punk, Dr John, Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Gotye, and on it goes.” ~ Jane Badler
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“I’m living proof that whatever happens to you in life, you can turn base metal into gold.” ~ Lady Colin
- “Campbell If we’re compared to Metallica, the greatest metal band in the world, I think that’s actually a pretty damn good compliment.” ~ Johnny Christ
- “I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early ’90s, and hospitals and doctor’s offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!” ~ Cory Michael Smith
- “Most ceramic plates, bowls, and cups have an unglazed rim around the very bottom, where the piece was in contact with the floor of the kiln. This unglazed ceramic is harder than metal and can be used just like a sharpening stone.” ~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
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“For me, I’m way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.” ~ Floor Jansen
- “I really don’t want to be associated with the low-brow Black Metal genre. If you want to know what I mean when I say that, just have a look at an Immortal video on YouTube or something. It’s so dumb I don’t know what to say, really, and it’s so ridiculous, we can barely tell the difference between the real stuff and the parodies.” ~ Varg Vikernes
- “People adored Element 13’s color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver – a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.” ~ Sam Kean
- “Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.” ~ Scott Ian
- “All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
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“That’s where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do – most of my style comes straight from death metal.” ~ Joey Jordison
- “We didn’t gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.” ~ Gary Cherone
- “I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.” ~ Kurt Cobain
- “I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.” ~ Greg Ginn
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“Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.” ~ Corey Taylor
- “There are gay and lesbian people in all walks of life, in all different types of professions. I just happen to be a gay man who sings in a heavy metal band.” ~ Rob Halford
- “Metal is easily my favorite thing – Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth – so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.” ~ Brian Posehn
- “The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.” ~ Ellsworth Kelly
- “Heavy metal to me is this cartoon idiom where people have their hair stuck-up all over the place dyed blonde with black roots showing through and Spandex trousers and chains around their neck, eating raw meat on stage. It just doesn’t mean anything to me.” ~ Gary Moore
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“Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?” ~ W. D. Richter
- “When I was a kid, I saw ‘Heavy Metal’ the movie, and my mind was blown. I loved the idea that you could have all these different stories in different styles that are linked together.” ~ Dan Fogler
- “My biggest failure is ‘Metal Gear.’ It’s my biggest failure and my biggest success.” ~ Hideo Kojima
- “Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn’t very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.” ~ Tucker Carlson
- “The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture – for many growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did.” ~ Alissa Quart
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“I weigh the man, not his title; ’tis not the king’s stamp can make the metal better.” ~ William Wycherley
- “Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.” ~ Panos Cosmatos
- “Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.” ~ Peter Tork
- “CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the ’70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They’re really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.” ~ Quentin Tarantino
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“With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don’t fit in.” ~ Oliver Sykes
- “I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.” ~ Reggie Watts
- “People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it’s just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they’re playing with the same amount of ferocity. It’s not to say all jazz is like that.” ~ Damien Chazelle
