Top 60 Quotes & Sayings by Meat Loaf

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Michael Lee Aday, known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. He is on the list of best-selling music artists. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy — Bat Out of Hell (1977), Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993), and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006) — has sold more than 65 million albums worldwide. The first album stayed on the charts for over nine years, still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and is on the list of best-selling albums.

American - Musician | September 27, 1951 - January 20, 2022

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

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

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

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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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I really like Bruno Mars.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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

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

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I know the territory, I've been around. It'll all turn to dust, and we'll fall down, and sooner or later you'll be screwing around.

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Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

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

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There has storm clouds come over the United States. There is thunderstorms over Europe. There are hail storms – and I mean major hail storms – in the Middle East. So I want you to know that there is one man who will stand tall in this country and fight the storm and bring the United States back to what it should be – Governor Mitt Romney!

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You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me.

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I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.

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We carry the flame for all to see, the fire and passion of what we can be.

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Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

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A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

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I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

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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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Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

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

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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

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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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Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

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

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

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If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.

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Some days it don't come easy Some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all And these are the days that never end

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

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What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

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In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King

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

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

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It was always summer and the future called We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all And there was so much left to dream And so much time to make it real

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

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

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The angels had guitars before they had wings.

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

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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.

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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.