Words matter. These are the best Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You don’t understand what you’re angry about as a young man. You have those young man blues.
At the Drive-In was very meat and potatoes – a one-trick pony. Everyone was attracted to us because we put on a good live show.
That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.
I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it’s rough to look in the mirror, but it’s such an important thing to do that.
When you’re just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever existed. You wonder how we allow that to happen as human beings; how we allow the human condition to get so depraved and desperate.
We have the ability to attract and repel at the same time, which I think you should embrace. Otherwise, you’re just going to be, like, this Neil Diamond act.
I would feel weird if I wasn’t able to be longwinded, or have information-overload on our songs.
I like to think I take care of my body a little bit more, I’m not screaming as much.
In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.
To me, prog-rock is ELP. And for me personally, that stuff is really boring.
I think that’s what propelled our band, the fact that we put on something that was visibly attractive to people and then maybe the music comes later. I don’t know what it is that people really like about us but that’s part of the equation.
It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody used to go skateboarding in. It was me and Jim Ward and an acoustic guitar. He and I constructed the very first phases of At The Drive In.
I think other people’s interpretations of what I’ve written are a lot better than what I have, because I don’t understand a lot of what I write.
I’ve come to realize that at the end of the day, it’s only you yourself that creativity comes from.
To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.
Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It’s not so literal. It’s like a David Lynch movie.
Mars Volta was always about embracing what ‘too much’ was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.
The kid in me has ADD.
Growing up, I learned the value of sticking up for my brown-skinned friends amongst my white-skinned friends.
The 20-year-old version of me had all this energy, and wanted to be obnoxious with his art and wanted to communicate even though he didn’t know what he wanted to communicate.
I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.
All I can do is move forward with my music and just be happy that Mars Volta ever happened at all.
It’s inspiring to see Black Flag looking like Vietnamese farmers with big beards and those kind of Vietnamese farming hats showing up at a Mohawk-mania club in England and being spat at because they don’t sound or look like Exploited; they sound more like Black Sabbath than Black Flag. I love that.
I wanted to be Paul Stanley or Gene Simmons.
It’s too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.
Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.
I’ve said this many times: Rock ‘n’ roll is this magnet for dysfunctional people who only know how to communicate through the medium of a live show.
The story of my life is the Chicano experience personified.
I gravitated towards Jim Ward, because I knew he was totally into the work aspect of being in a band.
It’s hard to turn my internal dialogue off from that character I become.