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" I go online, and I love watching heavy metal bands and guitar players play heavy metal versions of the 'Zelda' theme, and people do all the 'Zelda' music, which is one of my favorite soundtracks. "

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" I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.' "

" One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked so many questions about, you know, is it more melodic, is it heavier, are you doing your old stuff, is it new? "

" We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula. "

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" I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013. "

" If you make money, what's it worth if you can't be with your family? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The more kids that we can meet or kids that are terminally ill, we try to do it because it's really important, and you can see the hope in their eyes and in their families and their parents. "

" I've always been a really open person around my friends. "

" For me, a band like Gojira brings something really cool and new to the table. "

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" Most people know we're kind of one of the only bands around right now that will admit that we're Republican. "

" What made 'Dark Side Of The Moon' so great is some of the mystique and where it was coming from and just the authenticity of it. "

" I think the cool thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can literally put out music as soon and as frequently as you want to because of streaming services. "

" One thing I loved when I was growing up, you maybe saw one review from a magazine like 'Rolling Stone,' but now there are 150 reviews before an album even comes out. There are so many opinions out there, but the only one that really matters is your own. "

" We grew up with every type of band from Primus to Mr. Bungle to Elton John to pop music to metal, and we try to throw it all in a blender. And whatever comes out of that is more Avenged Sevenfold than metal or metalcore. "

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" Growing up, I was always playing with video games. "

" 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. "

" I used to get a huge kick out of walking into a record store and finding something I didn't know was out. "

" We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves. "

" I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity. "

" I'm kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with musicians about things. I also enjoy when a fan can just put something on, and they really know nothing about music other than they like it and it touches them in some way. "

" I think everyone in the band has had someone that's served in their family. I wouldn't say that anybody has a military family, but both of my grandfathers were in the military. "

" Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands. "

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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. "

" People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better. "

" It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music. "

" It really does help everyone when there are some big bands leading the charge. "

" I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's the song before 'Exist.' To me it's got the coolest, it's just so bizarre because it's got one of the most melodic vocal melodies, but we put it over a black metal blast beats. "

" We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be? "