Quotes by Scott Ian - Page 1

Why would heavy metal ever go away?
Scott Ian / Musician
Going Away
Heavy
Heavy Metal
Go Away
Metal
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Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
Scott Ian / Musician
Frank
Guy
Insane
Rocks
Zappa
Beethoven
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Everything I do is metal. When I clean my house, it's metal.
Scott Ian / Musician
Clean
House
Metals
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Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.
Scott Ian / Musician
Car
Thousand
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There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.
Scott Ian / Musician
Thousand
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Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.
Scott Ian / Musician
Careers
Thinking
Years
Thinks
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I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.
Scott Ian / Musician
Car
Thinking
Want
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I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.
Scott Ian / Musician
Best
Good
Good Times
Having A Good Time
Song
Thinking
Time Good Having A Good Time
Come
Songs
Best Time Good
Good Time
Having
Jamming
Riffs
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I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
Scott Ian / Musician
Fans
Giants
Influence
Ramones
Giant
Johnny
Huge Influence
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When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.
Scott Ian / Musician
Certain
Duh
Tools
Younger
Certain Things
Life Your Things
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Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.
Scott Ian / Musician
Book
Comic
Comic Book
Fantasy
Guy
Horror
Nerd
Sci Fi
Metal
Nerds
Percentage
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I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.
Scott Ian / Musician
People
Thinking
Worry
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Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.
Scott Ian / Musician
Anthrax
Horrible
Names
Sick
Strong
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Exposed
Kind
Stuff
World
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Knows
Persons
Pictures Of Myself
Pictures
Recognize
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Guitar
Guitar Player
Player
Sitting
Trying
Planet
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Feel Good
Guitar
Player
Guitar Players
To Be Honest
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Home
Song
Writing
Rare
Noodle
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Bigs
Gaga
Metallica
Pops
Lady
Lady Gaga
Underground
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Fun
Guitar
Play
Songwriting
Tool
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Men
Baby
Believer
True Believer
Trying
Babies
Bodies
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Able
Band
Play
Entire Life
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Appeals
Entity
Zombie
Entities
Supernatural
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Difficult
Internet
Worst
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Firsts
Mind
Who I Am
Jewish
Claim
Foremost
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Kids
Fans
Invited
School
Big Fan
Indie
Metal
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Opportunity
Fine
Problem
Records
Sticker
Want
Affects
Record
Wants
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Different
Different Times
Feelings
Periods
Song
Positive Life Time
Reflect
To Be Honest
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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.
Scott Ian / Musician
Brother
Issues
Rolling
Thinking
Bought
Brothers
Chemical
Rolling Stone
Stone
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What I love about 'The Walking Dead' is it's a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the book to the screen, the gore and the zombies have to look great.
Scott Ian / Musician
Book
Comic
Comic Book
Gore
Pages
Walking Dead
Zombie
Love Good Great
Jump
Screen
Zombies
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My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.
Scott Ian / Musician
Grandfather
Orthodox
Parent
Religious
Jews
Neither
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Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
Scott Ian / Musician
Kids
Band
Would Be
Record Store
Store
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People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.
Scott Ian / Musician
People
Play
Plenty
Stereotype
Thinking
Tough
Woody
Jewish
People Tough Know
Allen
Guys
Israelis
Jews
Metal
Woody Allen
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A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.
Scott Ian / Musician
Guitar
Song
Writing
Perform
Context
Strictly
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I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.
Scott Ian / Musician
Term
Touched
Finger
Sexual
Suppose
Subject
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I find it much easier to write comic-books than lyrics actually because it's a natural dialogue. Writing song lyrics is not natural but over the years I know what I need to know to get it done. I find it quite easy to capture a character and use my own personality and humour.
Scott Ian / Musician
Character
Song
Writing
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