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  • Musician
  • born 1981
  • 89 quotes

Zacky Vengeance, a musician (born 1981), is quoted 89 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Wanna, Musically, Metal and Guitars.

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You can't spell bass without ass

I like hip-hop, I like yay music.

I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.

When you see a band, you want to see characters.

Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them

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

We're in a league of our own darling and don't you forget it.

I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

We wanna go back to Southeast Asia and just do it right for them.

I like being able to do dueling leads, and it's fun to be able to shred.

To be honest, we never, ever let business weigh down the creativity of this band.

Only a world spinning out of control could inspire the music and vision we have now.

I wanna keep people on their toes, and that's just kind of how we've always operated.

When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.

There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it.

Mike Elizondo had an incredible array of guitars in the studio, but they were all right-handed.

That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

I can honestly tell you, if it wasn't for our fans, there would not be Avenged Sevenfold right now.

There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now.

The best part of being in a band and being successful is you get to have hot girls lace up your shoes.

We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes Avenged truly unrelenting and building off of that.

When we were recording, sometimes I wondered if what we were doing would even be possible to play live.

What makes Avenged so exciting to me musically is that people either love us or hate us, but nobody sounds like us.

It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.

When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.

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.

On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.

I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They're just so brilliant because they breathe.

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.

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.

We wanted to write the kind of songs that can really cross any language barriers, any borders, and resonate with fans around the world.

A great way to get your rhythm playing together is to work with a drummer, preferably someone that has a good groove and plays solidly in time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For us to dial back a little bit and have a little more straightforward, singalong appeal was a challenge. In order to do that, we had to throw away a lot of stuff.

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.

That's what bands like Pink Floyd and bands like Rush and even the Metallica of this world have, which is long, ambitious songs that pull in all different directions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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