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Phil Anselmo

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 love

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 time

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 living

With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.

— Phil Anselmo art

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 history

In my better sense of mind, I know that I'm far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.

— Phil Anselmo art

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 wild

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

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

— Phil Anselmo music

At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time.

— Phil Anselmo life

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

— Phil Anselmo love

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

— Phil Anselmo love

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 world

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 media

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 time

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 success

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 music

There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick.

— Phil Anselmo age

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 time

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 words

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 pain

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 evolution

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

— Phil Anselmo love

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 loss

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 love

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstreamll drown you, you know? Theres always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

— Phil Anselmo love

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