Zacky Vengeance Quotes

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We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right

We’re trying to do something nobody else is doing right now.
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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.
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We go out there every night, and we fight the battle. We don’t care about people who don’t think we’re true metal. We hope to change their minds. I have total faith.
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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.
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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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When you see a band, you want to see characters.
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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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Mike Elizondo had an incredible array of guitars in the studio, but they were all right-handed.
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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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I like being able to do dueling leads, and it’s fun to be able to shred.
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Waking the Fallentruly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock n’ roll, and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music.
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A lot of people have ideas and opinions on what Avenged Sevenfold should be or what we should do, and I think our No. 1 rule is to always make sure we never listen to any of that and to always do what we believe.
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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.
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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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Only a world spinning out of control could inspire the music and vision we have now.
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You always have to try new things, and that’s the one thing that we’ve learned from all the greats – every album isn’t gonna be every fan‘s favorite, but as long as you keep switching it up and making new fans, it’s really about being persistent.
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We’re focused on making our fans happy, keeping each other happy, so we can do this forever.
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We’re very historically tried and true when it comes to our albums. We pick the best songs; we get rid of the songs we feel don’t fit on the album, and we don’t work on remixing or remastering albums.
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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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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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What makes Avenged so exciting to me musically is that people either love us or hate us, but nobody sounds like us.
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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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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.
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We didn’t say, ‘Hey, we’re gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,’ or, ‘We’re gonna write an original song that has to sound like this, because we’re a metal band, so we’re gonna cover some metal songs.’ We did the opposite. We just said, ‘We’re gonna have fun with these songs, and we’re gonna try different things.’
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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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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 worked a lot on our album cover, and I didn’t just want to post it on our website one day and move on. We wound up breaking it into 18 pieces and hiding them on fan sites all over the Internet and then posting clues, so fans could put together the puzzle.
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Basically, we’re just a bunch of kids who got together and try to use what we have and try to learn from each other.
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It’s always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.
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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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To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.
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I’ve always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.
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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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On our first album, ‘Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,’ we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.
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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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All the song choices that we’ve picked are unique in their own right. They’re fun, and it’s really just to engage our fans.
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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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We’re in the business of making fans that will last with us a lifetime. In order to do that, you’ve gotta give them something special.
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We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes Avenged truly unrelenting and building off of that.
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One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can’t figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what’s the point?
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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AfterCity 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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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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My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.
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We’re always talking and plotting and discussing what we can do to give our fans the best possible experience and leave everyone going home with having an amazing time and a memory that will last a lifetime.
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We wanna be on the frontlines of everything new and exciting. The old world order of putting out four singles before you release an album is so boring to us.
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I wanna keep people on their toes, and that’s just kind of how we’ve always operated.
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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.
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We’re not a Screamo band.
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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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