David Pajo Quotes
-
In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.
-
Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.
-
I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one of the reasons we're not as active as we'd like to be - it's an expensive chore for me to go down there just to talk or something.
-
There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.
-
Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death type stuff.
-
We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.
-
As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.
-
You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.
-
On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It's not like I want to blow my brains out while I'm playing these songs from so long ago. I am still surprised by the way the songs are constructed - note choices, the way the arrangements are made, the way these songs are assembled. I'm still amazed at times.
-
My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.