Quotes by Chad Gilbert - Page 2

If you watch old Cars videos, they don't make any sense. They're just fun to watch. There doesn't need to be storyline, and you don't need to know why anything is happening.
Chad Gilbert /
Storyline
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Every record from New Found Glory is a little different. We're a real band that writes songs about our everyday relationships - like, our personal war, not war and government or politics.
Chad Gilbert /
Glory
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We'd practice in my living room and it was awesome. Our parents were pretty supportive of it because they thought it was cute. I don't think they ever realized how far we would go with it.
Chad Gilbert /
Living Room
Supportive
How Far
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I did play flag football. I actually got my lip busted. My team was really good; we won first place in the season, and won the Super Bowl. I was one of the defense guys. I was really good.
Chad Gilbert /
Busted
Defense
Super Bowl
Bowl
First Place
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We're hoping that fans who have listened for a while, or only know the singles will be like, 'Damn, man, I didn't realize track 9 on 'Catalyst,' I didn't realize how awesome that song is.'
Chad Gilbert /
Catalyst
Damn
Singles
Hoping
Listened
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Those who have to struggle with addiction in their lives know the 'you only live once' mentality doesn't really work because you can only do that for so often before you're self-destructive.
Chad Gilbert /
Addiction
Mentality
Self Destructive
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All of the records are direct reflections of how we were at that time in our lives, so when we play them, it's very nostalgic and fun, but also it's cool to see that they all still sound really relevant.
Chad Gilbert /
Nostalgic
Relevant
Reflections
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I still get excited for band practice, like I love when we're about to go on tour and we all get together and practice. I'm so excited, it's like the first day of school. You check out everyone's new backpack.
Chad Gilbert /
Get Together
Love Together Day
Backpack
Check
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We did two nights at a place in Southern California that only holds about 500 people. It was really intimate... Everyone was in lingerie... OK, every time someone says a show was intimate, my head always goes there.
Chad Gilbert /
California
Intimate
Lingerie
Southern
Southern California
Time Always People
Nights
Every Time
Time People Always
Holds
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So many bands have the same performance-based videos, and it's so lame. I know bands whose labels rent a crowd, so they have these fake audiences that jump up and down trying to make it look like a pit or something.
Chad Gilbert /
Fake
Lame
Up And Down
Jump
Pit
Rent
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Fans feel so close to us and can relate to us because not only do we look like the kids at our shows, we're in the crowd with the kids at our shows. We don't create this weird barrier like we're some crazy rock band.
Chad Gilbert /
Barrier
Rock Band
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For me and MTV, it was always the MTV year-end countdowns. It was what I'd look forward to honestly every year just as much as Christmas. When Christmas was over, the top 100 videos of the year would lead up to the ball drop.
Chad Gilbert /
Mtv
Christmas Always Me
Drop
Just As Much
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Yeah, we might have a video on 'TRL,' but when you go to the Warped Tour you're going to see us walking around in the crowd and hanging out with kids because we treat our fans like we wanted to be treated when we were going to shows.
Chad Gilbert /
Warped
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When you're recording a ninth studio album, you can't fail. You don't really have any fears. You just make the best record that you like. You hope your fans are gonna like it, but if they don't, they have eight other ones to listen to.
Chad Gilbert /
Eight
Album
Best Hope Your
Fail
Fears
Ninth
Record
Studio
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My stepfather, Steve Mallonee, is a retired Miami Beach firefighter, loved and adored by many. After numerous years of heroic work, saving lives through fire and heavy smoke, he has developed a very fatal lunge disease called Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Chad Gilbert /
Beach
Firefighter
Heroic
Miami
Retired
Saving
Smoke
Adored
Fatal
Numerous
Stepfather
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I'm involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and the easiest and most fun thing for me to do in my life, is to be in New Found Glory, go on stage and play these songs.
Chad Gilbert /
Different Things
Glory
Release
Life Me Fun
Easiest
Fun Thing
Label
Producing
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When we started, our style of music wasn't on MTV. It wasn't cool, and it wasn't popular. The only bands who were even kind of similar were Blink-182 and Green Day. But we don't sound like those bands, even if people throw us in that category now.
Chad Gilbert /
Mtv
Green Day
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If we meet some people that are in love with NFG that are a major label, then we'll sign with them. If we meet people that are in love with NFG that are an independent label - and they have a plan - well, then we'll sign to them. It's completely up to us.
Chad Gilbert /
Independent Label
Label
Major Label
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I think a lot of bands would just make a dark, bleak album, which is why we wanted to do the opposite. We wanted to let people know that there's hope out there, and that no matter how tough things get, they will always get better. I'm really proud of that.
Chad Gilbert /
Bleak
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I've been badly shocked before. I grabbed the mic to talk - it was near an outlet and there was water. I got shocked, and the jolt went from my head to my feet, shutting down my body and I just passed out. My friends woke me up and took me to the hospital.
Chad Gilbert /
Shocked
Badly
Grabbed
Hospital
Mic
Outlet
Shutting
Woke
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I know a lot of people feel pressure with their major label sophomore CD and having to follow up their first record real good. Well, we didn't have that pressure, because we have a real loyal fanbase, not a fanbase because we're on the radio, know what I mean?
Chad Gilbert /
Loyal
Sophomore
Good People Feel
Cd
Label
Major Label
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When we did the 'Titanic' theme, that song was everywhere. At the time we did it, it wasn't an old song. We didn't really listen to that song. We're not fans of the song. It was more about taking the song everyone knew and making it sound like a New Found Glory track.
Chad Gilbert /
Glory
Titanic
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I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young to go - I think I was 12 or 13. It was before Green Day were on a major label, but I loved them because they were this band who were a punk band, but they had melody.
Chad Gilbert /
Florida
Melody
Plus
Punk
South Florida
Green Day
Label
Major Label
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What's really cool about 'This is Me' is that our friends loved the song. Older punk rock fans don't know 'The Greatest Showman,' haven't seen the movie. And they hear that song and they're like, 'This just sounds like an awesome New Found Glory song. This is a really good song.'
Chad Gilbert /
Glory
Punk Rock
Cool Good Me
Good Song
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If you're in the music to move to Hollywood and be in 'People' magazine dating an actress or dating some Hollywood celebrity, are you into it for that side of it? Are you in it to be a millionaire? Or are you in it because you love it and you like playing music and you like going on tour?
Chad Gilbert /
Dating
Love Music People
Magazine
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One of the most distinctive things about our band is Jordan's voice. It stands out - in a good way for some people and in a bad way for others. But there's no mistaking it. That gives us a lot of room to do what we want musically. With Jordan singing, it'll always sound like New Found Glory.
Chad Gilbert /
Distinctive
Glory
Good Way
Jordan
Good Always People
Bad Way
Musically
Stands
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When we first came out it was this happy accident, and I was sort of into hardcore at the time. Jordan our singer was really into Jawbreaker and a lot of indie rock bands and old Dischord bands, and sort of like more of the indie side of music. Our bass player was really into West Coast punk.
Chad Gilbert /
Hardcore
Jordan
Rock Bands
West Coast
Accident
Bass Player
Indie
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There are parts in albums where I wrote a lot of the lyrics. There are parts on albums where Steve wrote a lot of the lyrics, even albums where Steve did the majority of the lyric writing. Then there were albums like 'Coming Home' where I did most of the chorus lyric writing. But it was always split.
Chad Gilbert /
Chorus
Coming Home
Lyric
Split
Steve
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I've got this inflatable Darth Vader that I stole off the roof of a Burger King. I went in and asked the girl at the counter if I could have it, and she said she didn't care, but she wasn't going to get me a ladder or anything like that. So I just kind of pulled myself up there, cut it loose and took off.
Chad Gilbert /
Burger King
If I Could
Roof
Vader
Counter
Burger
Darth
Darth Vader
Just Kind
Ladder
Loose
Pulled
Stole
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Because of social media being such a marketable format, things are constantly being released, so people don't pay as much attention because they have a million things being thrown at them. You reach more people, but now there's more content. Before, it was harder to get the people but there was less content.
Chad Gilbert /
Format
Thrown
Social Media People Media
More People
Much Attention
Released
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I read comments where our fans say Geffen screwed up 'Coming Home,' they screwed New Found Glory, but that's not really true. Maybe Geffen didn't have the right tools or whatever to get it to the kids, and internally, there were a bunch of changes going on at the label when our record came out, so I don't know if it's anyone's fault.
Chad Gilbert /
Coming Home
Glory
Tools
Label
Screwed
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