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" We're focused on making our fans happy, keeping each other happy, so we can do this forever. "
Zacky Vengeance
Fans
Focused
Forever
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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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" I think we are really in touch with what's going on around us in the world of music, trying to push the bar forward and try new and exciting things that our fans can react to. "
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" To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band. "
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" I'd like to think that we will have had something to do with a shift back to heavy rock. That's what we've wanted all along, and we knew there'd be fearless steps to take to achieve that. "
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" I like being able to do dueling leads, and it's fun to be able to shred. "
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" With any success, a lot of voices come out, and you start hearing a lot more opinions on the matter. We've provoked very strong reactions in both directions since day one. "
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" We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world. "
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" 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. "
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" Once you can get a fan to listen to an album a handful of times and really have a lot of substance for them to grasp, then you're looking at having a fan that really appreciates what you do for life and can appreciate coming to see it live. "
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" 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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" I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" To be honest, we spent many years at Warner, and in the very beginning, there was a very passionate team that worked alongside us on a daily basis. Every year that went by, we would lose just about every single person that worked directly with us, to the point that I honestly couldn't have picked up a phone and gotten one person who knew me. "
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Phone
" There are so many people involved in making an album, and naturally, all you want to do is show it to your friends and family. You just can't do any of that because all it takes is one morsel of information on the Internet. Within seconds, it's around the whole world. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument. "
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" Our first radio single, 'The Stage,' was eight-and-a-half minutes long. Unabashedly, we wanted to push the limits musically, lyrically, and instrumentation-wise. "
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" 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. "
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