M. Shadows Quotes
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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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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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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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Someone sent me an article on AI that was written by Tim Urban on the website Wait but Why - that was kind of where I stuck my toes in the puddle, and I said, 'OK, I've gotta learn about this!' I felt like this is one of those things that our generation is going to have to answer for, eventually, and I just wanted to educate myself on it.
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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 you look at metal, it's probably one of the healthiest genres when you look at it in a worldwide perspective - every single country listens to metal.
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We have this yearning to know the answers to the big questions about space and why we're here; we can't evolve fast enough to figure these answers out on our own, but we can do it through artificial intelligence. But there's also some very scary downsides that could come if we don't put the right safety precautions in there.
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Unless someone physically tries to attack me, I don't care what anyone does.
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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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No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.
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We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.
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The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
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We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.
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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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We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.
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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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We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.
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Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.
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I got an email saying we were nominated for a Grammy, and I instantly thought it was a joke. So I started Googling the nominees, and there we were!
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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've never made a comment on a message board in my life.
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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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All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get over it' - they just really have no idea. You have to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're doing the best they can to get through it.
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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.