M. Shadows Quotes

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

All music industry places are the same, really. They have the same dynamics and the same concerns and the same needs.

It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time.

It is true that the record company are always thinking of new ways to flog New Order to people.

I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

I spent a lot of time preparing for releasing music and then not a lot of time releasing music.

We as rappers have a job and have to get fans music and let them know about stuff that's coming out. So if everyone migrates to Twitter, that's where we go.

You've gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.

One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.

I'm a free agent so I'm probably gonna be signing a major deal that I'm gonna be announcing pretty soon, and a few good singles are coming out.

Oh yeah, waiting sucks.

I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.

On the other hand, we worked a year on this and some people are going to watch it in a night and go, "We want more!" And there is something I miss about the longing and the anticipation for the next episode.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

I've just recently started doing the promo bits for the new album, and the funny thing is that the people who come to talk to me about these things seem to be getting younger. It's like the people who like the music are all young kids and they're on top of you - they know all about what you're doing, and they're excited and animated about it. So it's a lot of fun.

If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.