David Draiman Quotes

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

I like bands that don't necessarily sell the most records.

I like Das Racist, and so should you.

Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.

If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.

I think with certain artists you want to hear their album... and then there are other artists who I like where maybe it's more about the single. I don't think there is going to be one way that everything works.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.