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Phil Anselmo

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

Phil Anselmo

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

Phil Anselmo

Everyone’s gonna have their opinion, everyone’s gonna have their favorite bands. The best way I can describe it is music is like food, either you love it, hate it, or are indifferent about it. Or you grow up and acquire a taste for it.

– Phil Anselmo

Phil Anselmo

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

Phil Anselmo

Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That’s the best education I could have, the best experiences I could have.

– Phil Anselmo

Phil Anselmo

It was awesome growing up in New Orleans because there were great metal bands, there were great hardcore bands, there were great thrash metal bands in the middle ’80s and what-not. But then, take me out of New Orleans, and I moved to Fort Worth in 1987, and there’s a scene there, too. And Texas absolutely has a different sound.

– Phil Anselmo

Phil Anselmo

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

Phil Anselmo

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.

– Phil Anselmo

Phil Anselmo

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

Phil Anselmo

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

Phil Anselmo

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.

– Phil Anselmo

Phil Anselmo

I wake up, and I’ll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the while I’m doing that, I’m kicking myself mentally.

– Phil Anselmo

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