Scott Ian Quotes

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Scott Ian

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 31, 1963

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

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

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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

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

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

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

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Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Scott Ian

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

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.

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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.

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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

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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

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