Blake Judd
If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.Collection: Heart
I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.Collection: School
I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.Collection: Men
I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.Collection: Attitude
It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.Collection: Negative
Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.Collection: Mean
I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.Collection: Facts
I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.Collection: Teenage
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.Collection: Math
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.Collection: Knowing
My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.Collection: Sorry
I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.Collection: Writing
It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.Collection: Nice
My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.Collection: Running
When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.Collection: People
I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?Collection: Tired
The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.Collection: Running
You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.Collection: Jobs
I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.Collection: Separation
Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.Collection: Hate
We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.Collection: Done