87 Quotes by Synyster Gates

When we do find someone we trust, like our tour manager, they become an official part of the band. We take our time to make sure whoever we trust has our best interest in mind.

Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.

The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well.

I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically.

We kinda were a radio-rock band. We were still pretty technical, but I think the prog people hated us because we didn't do a bunch of weird time signatures... which are cool at times, but I'm more interested in progressive harmony.

We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.

I'm not a big-effects sort of guy - I like to keep it simple.

We interact with the crowd, turn it into a party.

We listen to a lot of classical and a lot of jazz, and so you get some funky notes here and there. And we get a little experimental in some of the deeper tracks.