When I die bury me in smoke. Phil Anselmo More Quotes by Phil Anselmo More Quotes From Phil Anselmo 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. Phil Anselmo mtvmetal-fansreal Drink beer, smoke dope, and eat pussy until your jaw breaks Phil Anselmo pussydopebeer You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on. Phil Anselmo love-youpeopleworld You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive. Phil Anselmo pulsealivelooks Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us. Phil Anselmo genre-islessonstwo 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. Phil Anselmo shapeseyehalf In my better sense of mind, I know that Im far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me. Phil Anselmo earthmindmoving I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production. Phil Anselmo popularityalbumscare Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band. Phil Anselmo communicationkeysgiving I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way. Phil Anselmo evilbelievelying 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. Phil Anselmo donesuccessfulthinking 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. Phil Anselmo typehealthypast To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music. Phil Anselmo band To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another. Phil Anselmo musicianwritingneeds Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante. Phil Anselmo panteraheavy-metalsound Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to understand - it's not sonically heavy, but subject-wise it's absolutely heavy. It's a band that I've been in for many, many yearsm and I've just been waiting for the right itme, and boy, it sure is the right time. So, yeah, you will hear music from Philip Anselmo again, and it ain't gonna be nothing nice. Phil Anselmo nicewiseboys You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings. Phil Anselmo painsorrythinking We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with all my heart that one day, people - especially our fans and my friends - can see clearly enough to think for themselves and really realize that I have nothing but love for them. I've just been going through personal hell since December. Once again, it's very hard to talk about, man. You know, my heart is in a thousand pieces a day. Phil Anselmo heartmenthinking I may be loaded. I may be drunk. But I ain't stupid. Phil Anselmo drunkstupidmay Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific! Phil Anselmo guitarletting-gosong
