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" Everyone likes to have fun. But when I look back on my life, I'm not going to say, 'Oh, we're the crazy party animals.' I'll look back and say, 'Wow, we did take this seriously.' We had fun while we were out doing it, but it's just the only thing you read about: 'They're a bunch of party animals.' To be honest, that's not true. "

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Zacky Vengeance

Want

Think

People

" I wanna keep people on their toes, and that's just kind of how we've always operated. "

" That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you. "

" Even when we were at that point when we had very few fans, we never felt like a small band. We always felt like we had a big purpose. "

" It's just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and totally take a song and twist it around and have fun with it. "

" We like to be in touch with our fans, but we're also very private. 'Cause, to us, it's not about Zacky or M. Shadows or Synyster Gates. It's about Avenged Sevenfold; it's more important than any one of us. "

Zacky Vengeance

Important

Shadows

" We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries. "

Zacky Vengeance

Want

Scared

" My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections. "

" When we called each other and got the call that Jimmy had died, literally, it all ended right there. Everything we've ever known as human beings, everything we've ever known as a band, changes at that moment, and you can't think clearly. "

" To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band. "

" You carry on knowing that there's something so much more important than yourself to deliver to millions of fans across the world, to all your friends, and to yourself. "

" From day one, we've always gotten backlash for certain outlandish ideas that we've had and presented. That's also kind of been the driving force that's pushed us forward. "

" Basically, everything I've learned on guitar, I've learned from listening to my favorite albums. I never had any formal training. My teachers were Dimebag Darrell and Slash and the guys in Rancid and Slayer. "

" When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument. "

" When we were recording, sometimes I wondered if what we were doing would even be possible to play live. "

" This country is filled with remarkable people. One of my best friend's families is from Iran, and they're the most American family of all time. Some of the best people that I've ever met are immigrants. "

" What makes Avenged so exciting to me musically is that people either love us or hate us, but nobody sounds like us. "

Zacky Vengeance

People

Nobody

" On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands. "

" We've never tried to write radio hits. If I hear our song on the radio, it's cool, and I'm proud, but it's never a goal. "

" When you see a band, you want to see characters. "

" I can't honestly say with a straight face that every Avenged Sevenfold album is my favorite. "

" Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the way and get back on course. Never giving up - that's what I truly believe all the greatest bands have done. "

" It was a big deal for us to be on Ozzfest, especially as one of the main headliners and being the band that wasn't announced: the mystery band. We'd never played the second stage at Ozzfest, and all of a sudden we're on the main stage. "

Zacky Vengeance

Never

Stage

" The first review our band ever got - when I was 17 years old and we had just released our first EP, and this tiny little magazine wrote a review on it, and for that month, we were the best album of the month, and we were also the worst album of the month. We won best and worst album of the month in the same magazine. "

" Just by nature, we're always filled with so many ideas and want to cram as many ideas into a song as we can, and I think that gave us a lot of our signature sound. "

" With every album, I write above my ability, and my job as a guitarist is to catch up and be able to play it live. The thing about practicing is that once you master something, you don't have to remaster it. You just keep moving forward. "

" With 'Hail To The King' - our last album - we obviously wore our influences on our sleeve, and it was a blatant attempt to turn on our younger generation of fans to more classic-sounding metal. "

" Everyone loves to complain that there are no real bands on MTV, yet no one wants to step up to the plate and try to change that. "

" We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world. "

" I think everyone's trying to come up together and bring up other bands along the way, and we've always been really blessed to have bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden take us under their wing and say nice things about us. "