Top 50 M. Shadows Quotes

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We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves.

We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves.
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I think ‘The Stage’ is kind of left field.
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I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.
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People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.
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I know that sometimes we, as Americans, we reach outside of our means, and every once in a while we like to ‘police the world,’ but I think we do a lot of good as well.
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I think Kanye West is brilliant at what he does: he’s got a different live show, different merch for every tour, different vibes, and he just puts out great records.
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For me, ‘Far Beyond Driven’ just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.
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The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
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We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they’re typically not.
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If we can inspire a kid to pick up a guitar – and less and less kids are doing so these days – it’d be really cool because I know how it felt growing up and how special that was for me.
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Ever since ‘Hail to the King,’ we’ve been more cognizant of our chord progressions, our key changes, drama in songs, a lot of dynamics – we’ve really added a lot of that in there.
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A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that’s all they focus on. That’s kind of lost on me.
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When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.
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I’m kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with musicians about things. I also enjoy when a fan can just put something on, and they really know nothing about music other than they like it and it touches them in some way.
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Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
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I go online, and I love watching heavy metal bands and guitar players play heavy metal versions of the ‘Zelda’ theme, and people do all the ‘Zelda’ music, which is one of my favorite soundtracks.
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The more kids that we can meet or kids that are terminally ill, we try to do it because it’s really important, and you can see the hope in their eyes and in their families and their parents.
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The metalcore has been left behind. It’s not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it’s obviously not the direction we would write songs in.
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The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.
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We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.
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When we were writing the ‘Stage’ album, we realized we’d never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of ‘Wish You Were Here,’ but we didn’t really want it on the record.
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It’s important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you’re really here to make music.
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Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else’s shoes.
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We love the idea of putting out music in a non-conventional way.
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As we develop, I just see us following our heart on this musical journey.
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We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we’re not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.
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I’ve had friends who’ve had depression or been on medication because their pituitary glands aren’t giving out enough hormones – so I’ve been around a lot of people who’ve had problems like that. I’ve always been open to talk about that.
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When I’m by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the stars knowing that the answers are somewhere out there waiting to be discovered.
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If there’s something I really like or a chord progression, I write a note in my Blackberry, and maybe a year later, I’ll revisit it and ask, ‘What did I like about that?’ I really don’t try to think too much about it. I like to be fresh.
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We don’t want to become like country artists where there’s a formula.
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If people respect us as artists, they know we’ll give them something different every time; they know we’re pushing ourselves.
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The first Maiden record I ever got was 'Piece of Mind,'

The first Maiden record I ever got was ‘Piece of Mind,’ and I only got it because I thought the artwork was cool, and everyone talked about Iron Maiden. But they weren’t necessarily the most popular metal band in America for a 12-year-old kid when I discovered them.
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If you’re going to put out a record just to get a No. 1 and then forget about it after the first week, it’s the tail wagging the dog: it doesn’t make any sense.
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If I was to play any song for anybody asking, ‘What is metal about?’ I’d just play ‘Master of Puppets.’ The progressions and the bridge are brilliant.
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What made ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ so great is some of the mystique and where it was coming from and just the authenticity of it.
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Unless someone physically tries to attack me, I don’t care what anyone does.
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When you think of rock and roll and metal, a lot of it is based around the riff. If you can sing over the riff and what the arrangements are going to be like, you have to leave space for what most people consider one of the most key essential parts, which is the vocalist.
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The Brexit thing to me just looks like a difference of opinion. I know things were lied about, but that should be a wake-up call to get all the information before you vote about something. Educate yourself.
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If you make money, what’s it worth if you can’t be with your family?
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We go out there and kill it every night, and you can see what this means to people.
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We kind of reached this point in life where we don’t really want to put out anything just to put something out. We really don’t want it to be like, ‘Two years are up. You’ve had your break; now do another record and get it out there.’
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We’re trying to change the whole way our merch is viewed, in terms of just not a bunch of skulls interlaced; you know, every album can look the same, so they’re going to be stylized and different.
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I was a fan of ‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,’ and I got into ‘Call Of Duty: Black Ops,’ which was my favorite ‘Call Of Duty’ game of all time.
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We write music because we have to; it’s a part of our very being.
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I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.
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If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt.
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For me, a band like Gojira brings something really cool and new to the table.
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I feel like our whole discography up through ‘Hail to the King’ was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. ‘The Stage’ was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity.
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I want to stay away from trends and do what we want to do musically.
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I’ve never made a comment on a message board in my life.
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