Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Blake Judd

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Blake Judd is an American musician and co-founder of now-defunct Battle Kommand Records. Formerly the lead vocalist and frontman of the metal band Nachtmystium, Judd also contributed to musical acts and projects such as Twilight, Krieg, and Hate Meditation. He previously performed under the stage name "Azentrius". Judd's heroin addiction was publicly exposed in 2013 after he was arrested and charged with misdemeanor theft. His reputation was further damaged when fans, band mates, and business partners openly accused Judd of conducting fraudulent business practices. Judd later admitted to deceiving fans and left the music industry in 2014. He later reunited Nachtmystium in 2017 to perform two live shows and record a new studio album before dissolving the band in 2020.

American - Musician | Born: November 13, 1982

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I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

Blake Judd

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

Blake Judd

You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.

Blake Judd

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.

Blake Judd

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

Blake Judd

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.

Blake Judd

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.

Blake Judd

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

Blake Judd

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

Blake Judd

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

Blake Judd

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?

Blake Judd

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

Blake Judd

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.

Blake Judd

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.

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.

Blake Judd

We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.

Blake Judd

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.

Blake Judd

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.

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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.

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