M. Shadows Quotes

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

I love exploring the hypnotic elements of music, and because of that there are very long tracks on 'Immunity.'

You don't need to be a performer in order to dive into the sensory experience of music. Simply get as close as you can to the source of the music.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

My goal is just to be real and bring people good music and let them enjoy the music that I bring.

I just wanted to express myself and put out music of how I'm feeling - give back to my fans and gain new ones in the process.

I love futurist music.

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.

'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.

Each song takes a different path through a different headspace.

The music should speak for itself, and hopefully it will.

People understand my message is positive, and at the end of the day, I'm just here to make music that I enjoy and that other people enjoy. I think that's why I have such a loyal fan base.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm... Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!