Hey everybody, this is Rob Halford from Fight wishing you all a crazy heavy metal Christmas and an insane, wild manic New Year! Rob Halford More Quotes by Rob Halford More Quotes From Rob Halford Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it. Rob Halford where-you-are loses perspective Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance. Rob Halford pedestal balance easy That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old. Rob Halford records play writing I do my best; I put out things I believe in and if you don't like it then pass on to something else. Rob Halford i-believe-in i-believe believe Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes. Rob Halford musician dumb sometimes It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people. We accept that some people don't like heavy metal, but we can't let them convince us that it's negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times. Rob Halford convince-us hard-times creativity For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom. Rob Halford rocks guitar discovery All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I saw them on their first ever tour, at Birmingham Town Hall. They just blew me away. Rob Halford ipods queens song We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'. Rob Halford guitar ideas thinking I'll always have a totally open mind to endless possibilities. I want to do a dance album. Not Techno, but a record that's exclusively designed for people to dance to. That whole dance genre is kinda into its own world. I'd just like to get in there and mess around with that. Rob Halford genre-is mind people I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted. Rob Halford important love-is people All songs have a message whether it's I love you, do you love me or this government sucks in a basic format and then you expand upon your beliefs and your thinking process about what's going on around you in the world. Rob Halford love-you song thinking It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music. Rob Halford able joy I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame. Rob Halford hall-of-fame halls fame Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper Rob Halford audio marine experts I rarely write by myself. Rob Halford writing They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary. Rob Halford black league years You gotta have fun. Even now we have fun onstage. Rob Halford having-fun fun When I put Fight together, I wanted to maintain the momentum. I didn't want to kinda disappear for five years and then come back. I was just so ready to break away from where I was before and just start the journey. To just fulfill and realize these dreams that I carry in my head. Rob Halford fighting journey dream I played the track 'Exciter' backwards and suggested to the judge that what he'd heard was, 'I asked her for a peppermint. I asked her to get me one'. When the judge heard it, his eyes lit up. It was as if he realized how ridiculous the whole thing was. Rob Halford track eye judging
