Quotes by Zacky Vengeance - Page 2

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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
American Family
Filled
Immigrants
Iran
Remarkable
Time Best Family
Best Family Time
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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?
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Pet
Boston
Harmony
Sake
Ufo
Bands
Guitars
Maiden
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Gates
Shadows
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Basically, everything I've learned on guitar, I've learned from listening to my favorite albums. I never had any formal training. My teachers were Dimebag Darrell and Slash and the guys in Rancid and Slayer.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Albums
Formal
Slayer
Training
Teachers
Basically
Favorite
Guys
Slash
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Discussing
Going Home
Lifetime
Time Best Experience
Amazing Time
Best Time Experience
Plotting
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Hardcore
Instrumentation
Feel School High School
Ballad
Screaming
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Opinions
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Fans and friends are considered family. Being an A7X fan isn’t always easy because it means you’re not only gonna laugh with us, but cry with us and defend us on occasion. If you’re part of the family it’s for life.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Fans
Laughing
Mean
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Iron
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Nice Things
Maiden
Wing
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We've shown everyone we are musicians first and foremost: we'll produce our own albums and play The 100 Club. We earned people's respect. We're not the band on MTV, wearing a bunch of makeup. We've proved we're the real deal.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Makeup
Mtv
Respect People Real
Earned
Foremost
Proved
Real Deal
Shown
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Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the way and get back on course. Never giving up - that's what I truly believe all the greatest bands have done.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Giving Up
Scary
Steer
Bands
Tries
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Accentuate
Good Job
Overboard
Venues
Good Music Important
Incorporate
Letting
Lights
Most Important Thing
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Lap
Celebrating
Rock Stars
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Big Deal
Announced
Sudden
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Guitarist
Moving Forward
Catch
Master
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When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written - and they really resonated with me.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Different Ideas
Matt
Music Video
Our Music
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Jimmy
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Handful
Substance
Appreciates
Grasp
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I've never felt that way. I've never felt like a looser. You can't get what you want if you feel like it's you against the world. You'll never get anywhere with negativity. I make my own opportunities I don't feel like everything is against me.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Opportunity
Negativity
World
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Give Me
If I Could
Nine
Remember When
Time Dad Me
By The Time
Dollar
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
New Things
Switching
Greats
The One Thing
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If we were to find a drummer that we were comfortable with and who we felt could really become a part of what we're about, it'd be great. But would we ever rush to find a guy just get back on the road? No. I think we'd rather go down with the ship.
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Drummer
Rush
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'Waking the Fallen' truly 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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Being Afraid
Heavy
Heavy Metal
Punk
Punk Rock
Roots
Sun
Waking
Afraid
Metal
Showing
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Hiding
Website
Album Cover
Breaking
Clues
Move On
Post
Posting
Puzzle
Sites
Wound
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Boundaries
No Boundaries
Incorporate
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After 'City 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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
One Minute
Apprehensive
Music Guitar World
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Seconds
Friends And Family
So Many People
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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!
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Iron
Iron Maiden
Makeup
Theatrical
Twice
Maiden
Mix
Most Important Thing
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We really wanted to create an album that had no boundary or limit to it. There's nothing to say that we couldn't release a song that belongs on 'The Stage' 20 years into our career. We want it to be an album that constantly grows with what we want to do, and that's what we did.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Grows
Release
Belongs
Boundary
Limit
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I absolutely remember when I decided upon playing Ernie Ball strings, and it was right then and there at the guitar store up in Seattle when I picked up my first guitar ever. They said, 'What kind of strings should we put on it?' And I just looked at the brightest color package and said, 'That one!'
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Color
Decided
Remember When
Seattle
Strings
Absolutely
Ball
Brightest
Looked
Package
Picked
Store
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Clubs
Glamour
Relate
Partying
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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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Different Things
Hey
Have Fun
Metal
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Tiny
Month
Magazine
Released
Review
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Everyone likes to have fun. But when I look back on my life, I'm not going to say, 'Oh, we're the crazy party animals.' I'll look back and say, 'Wow, we did take this seriously.' We had fun while we were out doing it, but it's just the only thing you read about: 'They're a bunch of party animals.' To be honest, that's not true.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Bunch
Honest
Likes
Animals
Have Fun
Seriously
The Only Thing
To Be Honest
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I remember what it felt like when I was young, and I looked up to someone, and they would pay me just an ounce of attention. And some of the bands I listened to when I was young probably never even sold any albums, but it didn't matter to me. If I'd go up and say, 'Great show,' it would be amazing that they even would acknowledge me.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Acknowledge
Great Amazing Me
Great Show
Listened
Ounce
Sold
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Not everyone is going to love you. Not everyone is going to like what you do, and you see a lot of people don't want to let go of the bands that they love. They don't want to move forward. They don't want to let new things come in; they're scared of change. They're scared of new bands taking over their genre. They're just scared of change.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
New Things
Love Change People
Let Go
Move Forward
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I've had the chance to watch Metallica's James Hetfield from the side of the stage night after night, listening to his monitors, and his playing is so perfect. Slash is an amazing lead guitarist, but when you listen to his rhythm playing, you can hear how he pulls everything together with such a great feel, which is the most important thing.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Guitarist
Metallica
Rhythm
James
Most Important Thing
Slash
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Iron Maiden and Metallica are bigger now than they ever were. They're playing stadiums across the entire planet. Even though it seems like their heyday was back when MTV and the radio played their songs all the time, the truth is that they've gotten bigger now because they play all the time, and people know they're going to get a great show.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Heyday
Iron
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Mtv
Stadiums
Great Show
Maiden
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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.
Zacky Vengeance / Musician
Honestly
Passionate
Single Person
Alongside
Basis
Beginning
Daily
Daily Basis
Directly
Phone
Gotten
Picked
To Be Honest
Warner
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