King Diamond

Musician

46 Quotes

King Diamond was always more satanic than Mercyful Fate. And I'm not saying anything bad about Mercyful Fate - I love that band but sometimes people forget that King Diamond is the satanic philosophy through and through.

King Diamond was always more satanic than Mercyful Fate. And I'm not saying anything bad about Mercyful Fate - I love that band but sometimes people forget that King Diamond is the satanic philosophy through and through.

I was lucky that I had parents that had had supernatural experiences, so I could talk to them openly without them looking at me as some lunatic.

I lived in a house in Copenhagen that was uber-haunted for many years, with flying teacups and things like that; there was a time when I saw glasses rising off the table, and I took it as a sign of something saying, 'Hey, we're with you.'

I welcome the powers of the unknown.

I have this dream where I get chased through a park by Nazis in the Second World War. They finally catch up to me in an apartment somewhere, but I don't know what happens next.

I went to basic school for 10 years, and then I went to college.

I don't take for granted that I wake up. I appreciate it when I do, those times when it still happens.

I am very inspired by the Seventies.

My dad was a freedom fighter in Denmark against the occupational forces - the S.S. and the Gestapo and all that.

I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.

Me and my parents would watch old 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' and all those old black and white movies - as a kid, I'd lie in bed thinking that they would come out at night.

I am an entertainer and don't believe I should use this position to preach to anyone about who they should be voting for. Others might disagree, but that's the way I feel.

I don't like award ceremonies.

When you hear 'From the Other Side,' it's like being on an operating table. Suddenly, you're on the ceiling looking down at the doctors who are fighting for you. Are you gonna get a second chance or not?

I don't take anything for granted anymore, I'll tell you that.

In Denmark, you have thirteen or more political parties, so it's not too difficult to find a party who reflect your views.

If you sing the way I do, I get about one-fifth of the oxygen that the other guys in the band get. It doesn't make anything easier.

I have not thrown my money away on unnecessary things in my life, so I'm okay.

I was interested in music since I was 14 years old. What really got me started was the first Led Zeppelin album... absolutely.

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