“Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.” WellsStillsKidsSchoolGrowsGrowing UpListeningLateExcitedMetalsTeensAngleManson Author:Scott Putesky
“It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.” CountryYoungMotherGirlGrowing UpGrowingHugeListeningHeavyMetalsFanaticsNelsonHeavy MetalIndigo Author:Tig Notaro
“At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want to be in a band to begin with were groups like Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Sepultura... everything that my dad would buy and bring home to me and my brother saying 'Hey, listen to this'.” WantMadeHomeGroupsBrotherListeningDadBandMy DadStartingHeyMy BrotherMetalsSlayerDeath Metal Author:Mitch Lucker
“Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off with shotguns? Where's the problem? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection.” ProblemHomeHumorFunnyNaturalRecordsFansListeningSolutionsFolksHeavyBuyingMetalsUnemploymentSelectionNatural SelectionHeavy MetalShotgunsMetal Fans Author:Denis Leary
“I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.” KindListeningGunRoseHeavyIronMetals80sListening To MusicParkingPumpsMaidensMassachusettsMisfitsHeavy MetalParking LotGuns N RosesIron Maiden Author:Eli Roth
“I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You look at it, and there's more feeling, even though it's depressing, than there is in a lot of music I hear these days. A junkyard is what it is, whereas listening to a record by, say, Styx, is something else.” LooksFeelingsRecordsHeardListeningFilledThese DaysMetalsDepressingPathosStyxJunkyard Author:Tom Verlaine
“I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.” BeautifulBlackDarkListeningMusic IsViolentMetalsNorwegiansGreat HistoryBlack MetalDeath Metal Author:Brie Larson
“When we were on the bus doing the Mr. Show Hooray for America Tour there was a lot of laughter and a lot of pot smoking and a lot of speed metal listening and video game playing. Of course that was all Brian Posehn.” ShowsAmericaCoursesGamesListeningLaughterSpeedVideoSmokingPotBusMetalsBrianMr Show Author:David Cross
“I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a comeback. My brother in law is an example- before he was listening to some country music, even some of that awful nu-metal stuff , but there weren't many options really.” ThinkingIdeasRealCountryLawStuffExampleBrotherListeningBandAwfulMy BrotherMetalsStrokesIn-lawsComebackBrother In Law Author:James Mercer
“I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?” ListeningPicksSellsTiredMarketingMetalsMetal Music Author:Blake Judd
“Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.” StuffListeningTypeMetalsDeath Metal Author:David Pajo
“I'm listening to so much. I looooove Alicia Keys' song, "Unthinkable." I'm blasting that all over the place, but I'm also listening to Sade, and I always have my Heavy Metal, Mastodon.” SongKeysListeningHeavyMetalsUnthinkableHeavy Metal Author:Jada Pinkett Smith
“I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.” KindCoursesSidesPlayerListeningGuitarMetalsGuitar PlayerMaidensPlaying GuitarMetallica Author:John Petrucci
“I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.” KindBookCharacterHandsMy OwnListeningDrawsDrawingComicMetalsComic BookHand In HandBook CharactersComic Book Characters Author:Alan Robert
“I just had such a blast coming up with this corporate dweeb [in the Sex Tape], a sort of nerd who was also doing coke and listening to death metal and was obsessed with Walt Disney art. I just felt it was a type of guy you hadn't really seen before, and I was so happy with how it came out.” ArtGuySexFeltListeningTypeCorporateObsessedMetalsTapeNerdBlastCokeWaltType Of GuyDeath Metal Author:Rob Lowe
“People ask me if I'm influenced by British music, and I suppose I grew up listening to mostly British music - from new wave stuff through to heavy metal. Like, when I got into metal, it was Black Sabbath. I never really got into a lot of American rock. I appreciate some of it, but not much! Most of the great new wave music was coming out of Britain, and Germany. So maybe those influences have made their way into my music, and perhaps that's why I have this connection with people in Europe. But maybe it's something cosmic.” PeopleBlackInfluenceListeningAppreciateWaveAsk MeCosmicMetalsSabbathHeavy MetalBlack Sabbath Author:Chino Moreno
“Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.” WorldWayCultureFatherBitsWatchesGrowing UpGrowingTaughtListeningHeavyBritishMetalsSuburbsWaynePassed AwayTorontoHeavy MetalAustinBritish Culture Author:Mike Myers