Glenn Danzig Quotes

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Glenn Danzig

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 23, 1955

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

Glenn Danzig

Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

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My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

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If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time, they're like, 'Can you try it this way? Can you try it that way?' That's each line in the song, for each song.

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Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

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I was watching TV once, and 'Jailhouse Rock' comes on, and I'm like, 'What is this?' I started watching it, and at the end, I thought, 'This is what I want to do. That's what I want to be. That's for me. That's it!'

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I hadn't done a photo cover in a while, and I decided to do a take on the 'Pin Ups' cover, but do it in skull face and have the girl in skull face. People seem to dig it.

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You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.

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Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

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I had a situation where Bill Clinton sent the F.B.I. after me.

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I like Bill Murray a real lot. I like Andy Kaufman.

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I don't think anyone in my family was funny.

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Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it's slow.

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So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.

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I've seen a bunch of the 'Portlandia' episodes, and they're pretty hilarious.

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I like the original Metallica version they did on 'Garage Days' - 'Last Caress' and 'Green Hell.'

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I love giving the energy and getting the energy back. There is nothing like it.

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Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don't like is being on the bus and bouncing around.

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Two hours onstage... that's the best part because it makes it all worth it.

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The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

Glenn Danzig