Sonny Sandoval Quotes

Sonny Sandoval

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 16, 1974

I'm a laid-back, shy kinda dude, and it wasn't until when I was 19 that my life kind of changed.

Sonny Sandoval

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them.

Sonny Sandoval

I'm a daddy first; I'm a husband, and I'm a lover of God and people.

Sonny Sandoval

We were always just a hardcore band that came out and said what we believed in, but we also talked about the streets and the stuff that we were into and the struggles and everything we were going through. Once people found out we were Christian, it was always, 'Is that Christian music?'

Sonny Sandoval

I'm trying to make sure that for myself and for my family, I'm staying as close to the heart of God that I possibly can.

Sonny Sandoval

I love the nation of Israel. I love Jewish people. My King was Jewish, and I embrace that.

Sonny Sandoval

I listen to a lot of old-school worship music.

Sonny Sandoval

I remember hearing, back in the day, so-and-so got a deal, and bands are spending the money. Some of them live in the old days, where money is coming in and budgets are endless, but bands have to pay that back. Some bands just don't realize that.

Sonny Sandoval

All we know how to do is write music and love God.

Sonny Sandoval

It's always been my heart that God would save people through this crazy music somehow, someway, His way.

Sonny Sandoval

It's religion that killed our King, you know what I'm saying - that religious idea that has distorted the love of God, and now the world doesn't want it. They don't want religion. They want Jesus in their heart. They want Him. They just don't want the religion.

Sonny Sandoval

It is the power of God that keeps us rolling on. It's real good. When you know it to be real and true, that's when you have to share it with whoever will listen.

Sonny Sandoval

I'm the dirtiest of the dirty. I mess up all the time. I suck as a Christian. I can't stand religion. But I love Jesus, and I'm trying.

Sonny Sandoval

Even before the mainstream knew about P.O.D., we were going for several years underground. For me, those were the times where it really was about the music and really about the fan base.

Sonny Sandoval

My hope for young bands, honestly, is that they do it because they love it, they do it because it's real.

Sonny Sandoval

Some bands sound like one song the whole album through. We've been all over the place because we are punk, hardcore, rock n' roll, metal, reggae - and I think sometimes it might be too much diversity, and kids are lost.

Sonny Sandoval

Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's the other way around, so they're going to do whatever they want to do.

Sonny Sandoval

If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.

Sonny Sandoval

When you become a Christian, all of a sudden you start to live on this rapture mentality, like tomorrow the world's going to end. You live in that frenzy. We come from the streets, so the mentality was like, 'Yo, dude, what's up? You're not going to tell me I'm not down with God. What's up!'

Sonny Sandoval

At every Ozzfest show, there's horns and devils somewhere; there's some kind of darkness somewhere. But the thing is, this is a stage, homey, and those fools are entertainers. And you know what, it shows! It's fake.

Sonny Sandoval