Scott Ian Quotes

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.

I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

Everything I do is metal. When I clean my house, it's metal.

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.

As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.

I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.