Phil Anselmo's Quotes

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.

There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.

We definitely have a hardcore following.

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

There has got to be a lot of unreleased video out there, live footage and whatnot. There's always going to be something extra for the Pantera fan.

This is the band I always wanted to be in.

I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage... I don't know... there's too much of it out there.