Top 50 David Draiman Quotes

I’m a very active angel investor in a number of different companies.

We’ve always used that as a goal – the record that literally every single track on it could be a hit. A record that breaks doors down, that opens up new opportunities to us, that helps you achieve true immortality as an artist.

The fans who know us, and me in particular, know the type of people we are. I like the finer things. We’ve gone through our McDonald’s and Burger King phase.

I grew a very strong dislike for the organized aspect of religion over the course of time.

The media continues to spin the State of Israel and Jews as war-mongering, evil people, which we are not.

I’m pretty much done with political commentary. I’ve said everything I could possibly say. I’ve been a big mouth for long enough.

We had a master sergeant present us with the Bronze Star of Valor he had gotten because he had felt we were the eighth men of the platoon.

I’ll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chain records, and hearing that wonderful, beautiful darkness. And the rhythmic intensity, that’s what attracted me more than anything else.

‘Savior Of Nothing’ calls out the would-be social justice warriors of the world who become so enveloped in fighting so passionately that they become exactly what they’re trying to correct. They preach acceptance so much they become unaccepting.

I used to have, and I still do have, really bad acid reflux. I had a surgical procedure done… that repaired a valve at the top of my stomach that had completely burned away.

‘Creeping Death’ – that was a special song for me as a kid, because that was the one that every single Jewish kid thought, ‘Oh, Metallica wrote a song for us. He wrote it about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt under slavery.’

One of the degrees I have is in business, and I was a healthcare administrator that ran a 365-bed skilled nursing facility for years and generated several million dollars a year profit for them. So I have a background in business.

The Device experience was amazing. I enjoyed working with everyone that I was blessed with the opportunity to work with, and you learn so much going outside of your normal world and outside your box, so to speak.

Oh, I’m going to raise him on Black Sabbath and Metallica and football and MMA and all things that should matter for a young boy, and discipline and strength and honor and courage and everything that I would hope to instill within my son.

It’s impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level.

I’ve been blessed with a platform and a voice, and I owe it to myself and my family and our people to use it responsibly.

The first record I ever bought was Kiss’s ‘Destroyer.’ And those classic bands like Black Sabbath were my first loves.

Every time we put out a piece of art, it continues to define who we are. What could possibly be more important than that and require more of your focus and your time and your energy.

‘Immortalized’ is hopefully what music does for everyone in terms of emotions, in terms of experiences, in terms of being people who create it.

I’m a fan of Genesis prior to Phil Collins. I don’t really like Phil.

You have to decide what’s important to you. For instance, myself, I mean, I lead a very, very straight-edge sort of lifestyle on the road.

There’d be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.

I’m liberal about everything that is issue-based as far as ideology, but I’m also of the opinion of a very small government.

I think there’s no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you feel it’s as possible as it can be.

The level of study that I was at, I was probably only about two or three years away from being ordained as a rabbi, so I really needed to figure out in my head where I wanted to go with things. And I just couldn’t do it habitually anymore.

At the end of the day, what people want from me is to get up there on that stage and make them feel powerful and give them a release for an hour and a half or two hours every once in a while. And if I’m still able to do that, hopefully I’m still making people happy.

I formed my first band when I was going to Valley Torah High School in Los Angeles.

I’m all about freedom to go ahead and practice whatever kind of religions you want, have whatever sort of sexual preference you want, freedom in terms of being pro choice for women.

There’s nothing that can lock a memory in your mind more distinctly than with a piece of music. It’s so easy to remember something so vividly and so perfectly when you score it to something.

I really don’t think that anybody’s going to buy or not buy a Disturbed album and/or ticket because I am or am not wearing my labret piercings.

I was never the guy who was going to try to use my social media to be a source of promotion for myself… It was always trying to use whatever kind of a voice in the position that I have been blessed with for good.

I love ‘The Exorcist.’

I think that there’s always a time to be tongue-in-cheek, and there’s always time for humor, but there’s a time to be serious and a time for emotional content.

I will always be a proud defender of the Jewish people and of the State of Israel.

The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.

What makes something pop? It’s really just the bed it’s placed in. If I grab melodies by Black Sabbath or Metallica and take them out of their musical bed and put them into a pop context, it’s not like they wouldn’t translate.

Don’t get me wrong – we love our hip-hop, but in its own context. Rap has no place in our music. Is what we do rhythmic? Sure. Is it syncopated? Certainly. But our music has nothing to do with hip-hop.

‘The Sound Of Silence’ taught us that we shouldn’t be afraid of pushing the boundaries.

People who are divided are easier to control.

People make their own destinies.

I’m a fan of the ‘Underworld’ films, but I don’t necessarily consider them horror.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

I think that seeing as much support as somebody like Obama as a black candidate running for president in a country that historically has had issues with the African-American people, and them having issues vice-versa, is a miraculous thing.

There’s still anti-Semitism everywhere, and unfortunately, what has happened with our people no longer being the underdogs in this region, peoples’ perception of Israel has changed dramatically.

I’m a huge Kiss fan.

I’m lucky that I’ve been able to do things in my career that is affording us the luxury of not having to travel in a van to tour.

I come from a classical background.

What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That’s being a rock star.

We are a metal band, period. To me, the ‘nu’ part infers some sort of a rap influence.

I think that people are too… They’ve become genre snobs.