M. Shadows Quotes

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

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

What I do know is rock and roll and metal never goes away, ever. It took the back seat in America in the '90s. In Japan and South America, it was still really big. I never followed trends, so I don't know the exact function of them.

Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.

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.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

Most youngsters are so well-connected with the rock music circle that they will know instantly if I attempt to imitate any rock star.

You'll see an erosion of rock 'n' roll for sure... if you're playing a mainstream festival, you don't want to be the rock guy when everyone else is talking about Swedish House Mafia.

It really does help everyone when there are some big bands leading the charge.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.