M. Shadows Quotes

The bigger artists are definitely looking and paying attention to the culture and the style of bounce music.

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

The pop world has really opened its doors.

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

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

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

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

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

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.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.

There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there was a market for it - just as there is today. And there were more bad bands than there were good bands - I think that should always be remembered.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

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

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.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.

Nothing wrong with pop!