Against Me! Quotes
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There’s a yin and yang in music… a soul in it… the push and pull… it’s like a slingshot.
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You have to be the best that you can be
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You have to arrive… the way the music has to feel.
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Slipknot… It’s the most physically and mentally exerting thing I’ve ever been a part of in my life.
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I want to headbang… and head banging requires following a steady meter.
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If the attitude is there… if the vibe is there… if I put fourth the passion I know this band is about… I might not know much today… but I know the intensity and the passion that surrounds this band… and what’s expected within and outside the band… there’s just an expectation that you go with these things.
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Sometimes playing with a click isn’t going to achieve what this band needs.
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No one’s going to want to tell you twice.
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It wasn’t verbal learning lessons… it was harnessing the broad strokes of the songs.
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I became an even quicker learner… honing my skills of just taking a kernel of what someone said and practicing psychotically to make sure I delivered.
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Aside from Bruce, I’ve never really played with a click live.
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You have to create space to pull back and keep it musical.
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Keeping a responsible meter… that’s super important to me.””One of the things I carried from playing with bruce was a sense of time.
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Anything I’ve ever been a part of I’m playing with people that have really strong work ethics.
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When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying you don't like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can't win. People just want that division to exist. They don't want that division to go away.
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I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about something else." You don't want to say the same thing over and over again. In a lot of ways, I look at records as a year or two of my life encapsulated in songs. They're almost like journal entries.
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Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.
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Music can take you some interesting places. I’m happy to support just about anyone who isn’t part of the current administration, and especially someone with such all inclusive views. Equality is everything. Be good…
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Leaving my home today to go do this. I love my home. My wife, our dogs. But my love of drumming, of making music, is strong enough to pull me away time after time.
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If you know me at all, you know how big this is for me. brendancanty has been the most influential drummer on me from my first band to everything I’ve ever played on.
