Andie MacDowell Quotes

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

Give metal a chance!

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

I've always appreciated more guitar-driven and, in general, just rock music; that's what I listen to. I don't really listen to electronic music.

AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.