Synyster Gates Quotes

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me.

In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.

Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible.

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.

I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.

I see the headlines on Blabbermouth, and the fans are saying, 'Why is he always talking about Dream Theater?' I'm not talking about Dream Theater! I get asked about it.

I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work.

I am someone who likes to take my time. I do one album in three years, unlike others.

Typically, every 14 to 16 months, we're putting a new album out. To be honest, I wish it was slower.

I would love to work with a Beatle: Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr.

One day, Travi$ is going to be moving like The Beatles.

As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.

My fans are always upset because I don't do projects frequently and because I don't use social media.

People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.

We kind of reached this point in life where we don't really want to put out anything just to put something out. We really don't want it to be like, 'Two years are up. You've had your break; now do another record and get it out there.'