Sonny Sandoval Quotes

Sonny Sandoval

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 16, 1974

My grandmother and mother were from Italy, so I was raised Catholic. That kind of just meant going to church on Easter and Christmas. I saw a radical transformation in my family when they started going to a Christian church. I watched them fall in love with God.

Sonny Sandoval

We are all negative people, born negative people, so we concentrate on the good things in life, and that's what makes us smile.

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I'm a man of faith.

Sonny Sandoval

I know God is watching out for me, and he's saying, 'OK, son, watch your step now. You can be in these places, but just be careful. Keep your guard up.'

Sonny Sandoval

I love rap, and I love the angst of hardcore music and punk rock.

Sonny Sandoval

I'm a born-again Christian - if everybody can agree what that means. I believe in Jesus. I believe that He died for my sins.

Sonny Sandoval

We don't need a resume to come to God. It's not our good deeds. We come broken, and we need a savior.

Sonny Sandoval

We will not go out there and make negative music for selfish gain.

Sonny Sandoval

We don't tell you what to think or believe in. That's not our job. We're rock musicians. Our job is to rock.

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Kanye West deceives many and will lead many people astray.

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God is love.

Sonny Sandoval

Payable On Death is actually a banking term, when someone passes on, what someone leaves behind. We related that to Jesus on the cross, and by his death, our sins are paid, the debt is paid. We have salvation if we want it. We got tired of saying Payable On Death, so we went to P.O.D.

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I could have continued to get into trouble, but I wanted to do something positive with myself - and music is the best way.

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There is... a greater sense of divine purpose when we're playing at all-Christian rock shows. In clubs or bars, we know that the audience primarily came to see a show, so we try not to get preachy and instead let the music do most of the talking.

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We grew up on hip-hop, metal, and hard core, which... reflect a certain amount of the chaos and confusion that are part of daily life.

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We're not a typical Christian band. We've got dreadlocks and tattoos.

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We're going out there whether it's Satan's personal party or not. We're going to sing our hearts out, and we're going to worship God, no matter where we are.

Sonny Sandoval

At first, we were militant about our faith, really in people's faces. We used to say, 'I don't care if they kick us off the stage - I'm gonna tell them about Jesus!' But what good did that do? They never invited us back to the club.

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Kids come up to us all the time and say, 'Hey, I'm not a Christian, but what you guys are doing is cool.' Or they say, 'Man, there's something different going on when you guys play.' I believe that's the Spirit of God touching who God intends to touch, whether it's just one person or 50,000 people.

Sonny Sandoval

I went through those times in my life where I started to get bitter and angry, and you're like, 'Why am I even a Christian? I don't like any of these people that call themselves Christians.' That's when I had to go spend time with God, and He had to remind me I'm walking with Him and not these people.

Sonny Sandoval