Kerry King quotes

Kerry King is an American musician, best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the influential thrash metal band Slayer. His aggressive playing style has greatly shaped the sound of heavy metal music. He continues to inspire generations of metal artists and fans across the world. Here are 34 of his quotes:

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes. (Kerry King)
When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that. View quote
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If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.' View quote
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I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me. View quote
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Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know. View quote
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My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. View quote
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We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones. View quote
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Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums. View quote
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I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER. View quote
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It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better. View quote
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I just saw Jensen the other day. They are gonna be in the States at the same time when we are doing the tour, Se we'll see if we are going to see somewhere. (Kerry King)
I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either. View quote
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I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal. View quote
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If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us. View quote
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I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me. View quote
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I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before. View quote
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I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a "Forward, march!" kind of attitude. View quote
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Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones. View quote
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The worst thing about touring is the travel. View quote
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In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp! View quote
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Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts. (Kerry King)
It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again. View quote
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I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from. View quote
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When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that. View quote
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Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too. View quote
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Kerry King

Kerry King - Image
Photo: Suelen Pessoa from Contagem, Brazil, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Musician
Born: June 3, 1964
Quotes count: 34