Sonny Sandoval Quotes

I've always said that Pantera fans were the best in the world, and I truly meant that, and I still mean it.

My music experience living in Baltimore was life-altering. To this day, there is no scene that works as hard or puts as much effort into their art.

For a band like us, one that you don't necessarily hear on the radio, it's our fans that keep us alive and keep us going, and it's been an ever-growing base, especially with the younger kids that play guitar and want to play complex music.

I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.

I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.

I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

Imogen Poots loves music to death and can literally name 300 bands that she listens to, that you've never heard. She's so heavy into the underground music scene. When she's speaking on music, she means it.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.

The music I do and the fans I attract? I got crazy fans.

I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.

When I came up in a band - not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community - there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms.

When we first started playing shows, we were all 17. Everybody started somewhere. There were guys throwing shows in condemned houses and backyards just for the love of music and for the love of what bands were standing for.

It's kind of weird to think about our fan base now, where our hard-core fans have kids, families and jobs.

The overlap between Pavement's fan base and people who liked Silver Jews was total. In my mind, even a local band with 20 fans had more unqualified support.

My fans love everything. You can find my fans at a Drake show; you'll find my fans at Post Malone all the way to Pink. They just love music in general.

For a while there I wasn't sure that anybody cared about being the best at anything, and it's nice to have a group of guys that feel like we're doing it for the cause. Maybe we're just really young and naive for thinking music can matter, but it does to us.

And when it comes to the music, the fans are the most important thing because they get you and put you where you are. And so often - too often - that whole idea gets cast aside.

I just like country because a lot of those guys are from towns that I'm maybe from, for one. But also, I like how humble they are, and they're genuine people, I think. I'm not saying that rappers or rock and roll, those people, aren't. But I just feel like I get along with those guys because they're from small town.

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

We know what we like in music, and we got into music to try and give back what we got out of it.