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" I don't like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet. "
Synyster Gates
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" We're happier when we're with friends on tour. "
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" We listen to a lot of hip hop. They're the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it's really turned to hip hop, and they're doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too. "
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" He happens to be my father and an incredible musician. When he gets lucky, we let him into the studio for 20 minutes to hear a song which has been previously written for him. "
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" We're fortunate that our fans worldwide have really embraced our evolution. We know how lucky we are. We want to change people's lives. I'm not saying we're God's gift, but we're trying to make a difference. "
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" I think it's beneficial to practice with a metronome or drum machine in order to strengthen your sense of time. It will help your concept of time and improve your feel. "
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" I'm a huge Weezer fan, and 'Pinkerton' is just a crazy, crazy neurotic album. "
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" Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing the new technologies that were taking over the world, from 3-D printing to space travel. These conversations starting leading us to think of how we could portray these things in a musical way. "
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" There's nothing like having some healthy competition. We really strive to think outside the box by taking the standard approach the then twisting it a little, all the while trying something new. "
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" If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot. "
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" We make sure we have total artistic control with our albums. We were working with Interscope Records, and they had a hard time with us having all the control. So when we signed with Warner Bros., we told them we would be working hands-on with our producer, and they were cool with it. "
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Us
Time
" We have to do everything a hundred and ten percent when we're doing it. If we're on tour, we're constantly thinking of different ways to make the show better, or whatever it is. "
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Doing
Better
" We interact with the crowd, turn it into a party. "
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" I think if you go to 'Strength of the World,' a song like that, the chorus isn't that great, but you go into the bridge and other things and the catchier parts and the better melodies we were really focused on. "
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Great
Bridge
Strength
" If I'm proud of one thing in my playing, it's being able to slow it down and focus on the melody. "
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Playing
Proud
Focus
" As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more. "
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" I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically. "
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" I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world. I play a little bit of drums. "
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" Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis. "
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Lines
" Korn is great friends of ours, so to be on tour with friends is usually our number one. We've been very blessed to meet a lot of great bands, successful bands, that we can go tour with. "
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" We listen to a lot of classical and a lot of jazz, and so you get some funky notes here and there. And we get a little experimental in some of the deeper tracks. "
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" I'm not a big-effects sort of guy - I like to keep it simple. "
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" There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record. "
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" When we do find someone we trust, like our tour manager, they become an official part of the band. We take our time to make sure whoever we trust has our best interest in mind. "
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" When kids invest their time and money in coming to see us, we owe it to them to give them the best night of their lives. "
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" We don't ever spread ourselves too thin. And sometimes it's a little bit to the chagrin of our fans; they don't get albums... I mean, The Beatles were doing two albums a year at one point. "
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" I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today. "
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" We've had some huge moments. But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded. There's been no overnight success here, and we haven't dealt with a whole lot of hot and cold. "
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" We spend a lot of time with MIDI keyboards and various processors, and we just figure it out. And all those things you hear in our songs work as submelodies and countermelodies, and everything has to fit. "
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" It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the tour and not be confined and all that kind of stuff. "
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" Maybe we'll do some fun stuff here and there, but I don't want to record any more songs. "
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