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Quotes by Meat Loaf

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Wikipedia Summary for Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday, September 27, 1947), better known as Meat Loaf, is an American singer and actor. He is noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy—Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose—has sold more than 65 million albums worldwide. More than four decades after its release, the first album still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best-selling albums in history.

After the commercial success of Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, and earning a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song "I'd Do Anything for Love", Meat Loaf nevertheless experienced some difficulty establishing a steady career within the United States. This did not stop him from becoming one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. The key to this success was his retention of iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the United Kingdom, where he received the 1994 Brit Award for best-selling album and single, appeared in the 1997 film Spice World, and ranks 23rd for the number of weeks spent on the UK charts, as of 2006. He ranks 96th on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".

Sometimes credited as Meat Loaf Aday, he has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His most notable film roles include Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Robert "Bob" Paulson in Fight Club (1999). His early stage work included dual roles in the original cast of The Rocky Horror Show, and he was also in the musical Hair, both on- and off-Broadway.

To me, a song is new every time I sing it.

--Meat Loaf

I don't talk about politics. Not getting involved in politics at all.

--Meat Loaf

The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in.

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I get very intense: I get to the show five hours early. If we're on at 8 P.M., I'm there at 3 in the afternoon.

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I really like Bruno Mars.

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There ain't no Coupe Deville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.

--Meat Loaf

If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back.

--Meat Loaf

Open your eyes, I've got a big surprise, it will feel alright, I want to make your motor run.

--Meat Loaf

In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King.

--Meat Loaf

Storm the castle

Stem the tide

Rise above yourself

Cry baby cry

Cry cry to heaven

If that doesn't do it for you

Go ahead and cry like hell.

--Meat Loaf

Maybe I'm damned if I do, but with every other beat I got left in my heart, you know I'd rather be damned with you.

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Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll.

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I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout.

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You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.

--Meat Loaf

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

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I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight.

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I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

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I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.

--Meat Loaf

Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you.

--Meat Loaf

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

--Meat Loaf

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

--Meat Loaf

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

--Meat Loaf

There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.

--Meat Loaf

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

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I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.

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A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

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When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

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Just ask anybody who is getting old -- everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

--Meat Loaf

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management -- they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

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My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

--Meat Loaf

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

--Meat Loaf

'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world.

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For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

--Meat Loaf

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

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I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

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There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

--Meat Loaf

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

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You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.

--Meat Loaf

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

--Meat Loaf

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do -- take you to a better place.

--Meat Loaf

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

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It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

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As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

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My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

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