Ivan Moody Quotes

Ivan Moody

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 7, 1980

I'm the biggest NBA fan you will meet in your life.

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The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression I felt against some people who wronged me beyond the point of any kind of forgiveness or mercy.

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I've never really been a social butterfly, so to speak.

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Most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth, but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play.

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There were patterns in my family that had to be broken, and I refused to live my life the way certain members of my family had.

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When you put everything you have into making music, both on and off the stage, it can be very frustrating when the music you work so hard to create is not allowed to see the light of day.

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I don't want to tell people what to think.

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If you dwell on yesterday, man, you're never gonna see tomorrow clearly.

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Music for me was always life changing. So if I'm putting out crap music, then I have not done what I came to accomplish.

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Bands like Metallica never sat around and said, 'We're speed metal,' or 'We're thrash metal.' If it feels good at the end of the day, to me, that's metal.

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I'm a blue-collar kid from Colorado. I grew up on a farm.

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We absolutely thrive on the live setting. Even when we're in the studio, we make sure the songs we create are something we can do live passionately.

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We've got the most loyal fans on earth and probably the most craziest fans I've seen since the Pantera days.

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First and foremost, just to work alongside an icon like Rob Halford, the Metal God, was absolutely surreal.

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I was raised in Denver with the Nuggets.

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We're tired of band videos where all you see is musicians playing in some random church or out in a desert.

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I truly believe heavy metal has gone south. Too many people are focusing on, will the songs be on the radio, will the shirt be in Hot Topic?

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There are things that certain people aren't supposed to talk about and they're supposed to keep sheltered and go to psychologists and they try to figure them out on their own. But at the end of the day, we're all human.

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When you hit the Midwest... it's just some passion - I don't know if it's in the water or what it is - but it's just embedded in these kids.

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We love metal.

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