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Peter Steele [1962-2010] American
Rank: 101
Musician, Singer


Peter Thomas Ratajczyk, better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Before forming Type O Negative, he had created the metal group Fallout and the thrash band Carnivore.

Humor, Sad, Car, Death, Motivational, Music, Poetry, Politics, Space



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I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.
101
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. Poetry
102
I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.
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I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.
104
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me. Car, Motivational, Music
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I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.
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I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.
107
I'm a 'specist.' I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race. I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man.
108
So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.
109
Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.
110
Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.
111
It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me. Space
112
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. Death
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Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person. Humor, Sad
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I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
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I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth. Politics
116
I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
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There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
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I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment. Sad
119
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked. Humor
120
I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.
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If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.
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So, I simply switched over to wine because it was not carbonated.
123
I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.
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I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.
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To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.
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We're the only species who hunts for sport.
201
I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.
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I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
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I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.
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If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.
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I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
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I also like to eat very much, so I like all different types of foods.
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I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
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I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.
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I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.
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When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.
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I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction. The thing is, I can do anything I want, virtually, within reason, just to see people's reaction.
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I think I've changed a lot as a person.
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Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.
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One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.
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Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.
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Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.
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Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.
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If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.
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