M. Shadows Quotes

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I was listening to a lot of dude bands - Guns N' Roses and Metallica, all that stuff.

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC.

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.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

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

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

It's been an incredible experience, playing with Twisted Sister, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, jamming with Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and the list goes on and on and on.

We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.

I listen to older music like AC/DC.

Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.

I do love my rock music.

The first record I ever bought was Kiss's 'Destroyer.' And those classic bands like Black Sabbath were my first loves.

Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.