M. Shadows Quotes

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a concert, I like to think that there was something in there that I didn't do before. That's my goal.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.

I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.

I think it's healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.

Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.

What I do is, I look at rock guitar players, and I say to myself, 'What is this guy doing? What does he have that can inspire me?' I try to see what other people are doing and take what they have and turn it and twist it into my own thing.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.