M. Shadows Quotes
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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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Growing up, I was always playing with video games.
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Unless someone physically tries to attack me, I don't care what anyone does.
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Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.
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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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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're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.
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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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The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
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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 write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.
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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 write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.
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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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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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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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I've never made a comment on a message board in my life.