Gothic Music Quotes

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.

I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.

'Dance Macabre' feels like one of those songs that you want to play forever.

Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.

I really like Cold Cave.

Some people like the dark music I do. The dark music is my life; it isn't make believe.

I love everything from Enya to Pantera.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

The soundtrack for 'Hemlock Grove' got me into all this goth folk gypsy music like the Dead Brothers.

Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to this genre of music. She showed me that femininity didn't necessarily have to look the way that I was familiar with. It could be more exciting and much more identifiable.

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.

'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.