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" My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections. "
Zacky Vengeance
Fans
Parents
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" I think there's a whole group of kids out there that don't relate to the glitz and glamour of hanging out in clubs and partying all the time. So I think some people are just more real than that, and I think our fans are those kind of kids that need something to relate to, and I think we're the band to do it. "
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Time
" 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. "
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" Iron Maiden and Metallica are bigger now than they ever were. They're playing stadiums across the entire planet. Even though it seems like their heyday was back when MTV and the radio played their songs all the time, the truth is that they've gotten bigger now because they play all the time, and people know they're going to get a great show. "
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Truth Is
Great
People
" I think people have the right to love whoever they want, and I think that women have the right to do whatever they wish to their bodies given the circumstances. "
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Want
Think
People
" I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They're just so brilliant because they breathe. "
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Love
Breathe
Classic
" 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. "
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Nice
Trying
Blessed
" 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. "
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Month
Worst
Band
" I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars. "
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Riffs
Loved
Always
" To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band. "
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Band
Down
Honest
" When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written - and they really resonated with me. "
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Run
Trying
Music
" 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. "
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Fun
Language
Rock
" There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it. "
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Haters
People
Always
" I wanna keep people on their toes, and that's just kind of how we've always operated. "
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Just
Always
How
" 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. "
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Never
Big
Band
" I have no formal guitar training whatsoever, so it's been fun learning sweep-picking techniques. Working on these types of licks has thrown a whole new collection of tricks into the mix. "
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New
Fun
Learning
" We're focused on making our fans happy, keeping each other happy, so we can do this forever. "
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Fans
Focused
Forever
" 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. "
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Generation
Fans
Turn
" I remember what it felt like when I was young, and I looked up to someone, and they would pay me just an ounce of attention. And some of the bands I listened to when I was young probably never even sold any albums, but it didn't matter to me. If I'd go up and say, 'Great show,' it would be amazing that they even would acknowledge me. "
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Amazing
Attention
Me
" I think the most important thing to putting on a good show is to always mix things up. Sometimes we wear makeup; other times we don't. The point is, you'll never get the same Avenged show twice. I think it's really important to be theatrical. I mean, look at Iron Maiden! "
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Makeup
You
Always
" After 'City of Evil,' the world was still kind of apprehensive about Avenged Sevenfold. They didn't know if we were a serious band or just some kids trying to play really ambitious music with crazy guitar parts that would be here one minute and gone the next. "
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Music
World
Guitar
" We had to take full advantage of the fact that we wanted to be one of the most creative bands out there that's getting backed by one of the biggest companies. "
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Creative
Take
Out
" 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. "
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Family
Most
People
" Not everyone is going to love you. Not everyone is going to like what you do, and you see a lot of people don't want to let go of the bands that they love. They don't want to move forward. They don't want to let new things come in; they're scared of change. They're scared of new bands taking over their genre. They're just scared of change. "
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New Things
Change
You
" In terms of content and instrumentation, I feel we have been extremely ambitious on every one of our albums going back to high school. We were the first screaming hardcore band to put a big ballad on our record. "
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High School
Band
Back
" That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you. "
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Interview
Everyone
Guns
" I remember when I was a kid, every time the Beatles were on the radio, my dad would say he'd give me a dollar if I could tell him what band it was. So by the time I was about nine, I knew to just say 'The Beatles,' and I'd get a dollar out of it. "
Zacky Vengeance
Say
Time
Band
" 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. "
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Teachers
Listening
Training
" I think, as long as people have a strong opinion, whether they love or hate us, I think we're doing something right. "
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Love
People
Think
" We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don't use it overboard by any means. The most important thing is the music. I think we do a good job of letting that show. "
Zacky Vengeance
Think
Good
Music
" We're not the kind of people to just take a break and say everything's going good, you know, let's rest on our laurels, act like rock stars - we take it very seriously, and we certainly aren't just celebrating and doing a victory lap. "
Zacky Vengeance
People
Victory
Stars