Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Synyster Gates - Page 2

Maybe we'll do some fun stuff here and there, but I don't want to record any more songs.

There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.

We make sure we have total artistic control with our albums. We were working with Interscope Records, and they had a hard time with us having all the control. So when we signed with Warner Bros., we told them we would be working hands-on with our producer, and they were cool with it.

We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it's virtually impossible to use words to explain music.

My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house.

We tried our best for so long to make the heaviest record we could make.

We're happier when we're with friends on tour.

During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find an identity of your own, but they're still... They were the pioneers and the trailblazers.

When kids invest their time and money in coming to see us, we owe it to them to give them the best night of their lives.

I hope we're not the last of the Mohicans when it comes to putting on a big, crazy, over-the-top theatrical rock show.

I don't like using fourths and fifths. Instead, I'll come up with a harmony line made up of major and minor thirds above the melody, then I'll drop it down an octave so that the melody is on top and the harmony line is major and minor sixths below it.

We spent a lot of time in the studio. I mean, we've spent a lot of time on tour, too.

For the first two weeks after he passed, we were done as a band. We were just done. And because of the fans and Jimmy's parents and relatives and stuff like that, they just demanded that we continue on and spread the legacy that is, you know, the crazy James 'The Rev' Sullivan.

It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the tour and not be confined and all that kind of stuff.

We're trying to leave no stone unturned, to push forward in every aspect of what it means to be a band. Because this really matters to us. Metal matters to us. And we know exactly how much it means to kids out there, too.

Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.

Breaking Benjamin, they're such incredible songwriters.

My fans, they know my dad as Guitar Guy or whatever, and he's kind of just this shredder that plays on my records sometimes. But they don't know his ear and how rich his harmonic scope is.

I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college.

He happens to be my father and an incredible musician. When he gets lucky, we let him into the studio for 20 minutes to hear a song which has been previously written for him.

When we do find someone we trust, like our tour manager, they become an official part of the band. We take our time to make sure whoever we trust has our best interest in mind.

I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous.

When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause. It is what it is-and that’s a beautiful artform.

Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.

I am an intelligent drunk because an intelligent drunk carries his liquor with him

Always been purple. Like I remember being in the first grade, looking up at the color charts, and saying, 'Man, purple is the best color, man, it's the best color, it just is the best color.' I have a lot of purple shirts and stuff, I'm always wearing purple.