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" At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time. "
Phil Anselmo
Life
Time
My Life
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" 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. "
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Touch
Want
Bring
" 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. "
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Words
" I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads. "
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Own
Love
My Own
" I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day I'll release them all in one big package, but we'll see. "
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Day
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" I've always said that Pantera fans were the best in the world, and I truly meant that, and I still mean it. "
Phil Anselmo
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" I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months. "
Phil Anselmo
Cave
Dark
Months
" The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe. "
Phil Anselmo
Play
Song
Work
" I had the question asked of me before, 'What do you like better: singing or playing guitar?' If I'm gonna be totally truthful, if that microphone's in my hand, I'm loving it. When the guitar's in my hand, I'm a little nervous, but I'm still loving it. "
Phil Anselmo
You
Me
Singing
" 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. "
Phil Anselmo
Out
Live
Got
" There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively. "
Phil Anselmo
Going
Always
Days
" People are going to think and take things how they're going to take it, and I have no control over that, so it's kind of like biding time until you get your feedback. So, it's like, once the public can consume what you're putting out there, then you know. Then you know hit, miss, in between. "
Phil Anselmo
Control
You
Time
" 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. "
Phil Anselmo
Know
Go
You
" 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
I Am
Healthy
Right
" I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the past re-releases, we were fortunate enough to have old demos and stuff that never really saw the light of day. But Pantera was not the type of band to waste many riffs or many parts or songs. "
Phil Anselmo
Band
Past
Light
" 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. "
Phil Anselmo
Musicians
Know
Great
" Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with. "
Phil Anselmo
Knowing
Strength
Halfway
" I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out. "
Phil Anselmo
Wish
Love
Man
" You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings. "
Phil Anselmo
Music
Feelings
Emotions
" I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music. "
Phil Anselmo
I Can
Everything
Music
" 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
Know
Always
Alive
" I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record. "
Phil Anselmo
Classic
Like
Listen
" And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again. "
Phil Anselmo
Today
Again
Real
" I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life. "
Phil Anselmo
Young
Big
Life
" 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
You
Feelings
Mind
" I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower... just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I'm doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not. "
Phil Anselmo
Music
Family
Stars
" To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music. "
Phil Anselmo
Me
Music
Band
" 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; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us. "
Phil Anselmo
True
Music
Yourself
" Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally. "
Phil Anselmo
Singing
Gone
Me
" 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
More
Time
Band
" Tastes are varied, man, so much in this music world. Look, I adore the bands that I adore. On the flipside, as much as you love a 100 different genres of bands, there are another 100 I can easily say I dislike, too. "
Phil Anselmo
Love
Look
You