Blake Judd famous quotes

If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.
-- Blake Judd

#Heart #Years #Soul

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.
-- Blake Judd

#School #Theory #Halfway

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.
-- Blake Judd

#Men #Thinking #People

I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.
-- Blake Judd

#Attitude #Intelligent #People

Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.
-- Blake Judd

#Mean #Evil #Identity

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.
-- Blake Judd

#Facts #Happy Person #Special Treatment

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.
-- Blake Judd

#Teenage #Thinking #Years

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.
-- Blake Judd

#Negative #Outsiders #Easy

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.
-- Blake Judd

#Math #Thinking #Musician

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
-- Blake Judd

#Knowing #People #Language

My deepest apologies to all of our friends, fans and people who have worked on and supported us being a part of this festival, we are sorry for these awful circumstances and you can be certain this will not defeat us.
-- Blake Judd

#Sorry #Apology #People

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.
-- Blake Judd

#Writing #Thinking #Signatures

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.
-- Blake Judd

#Nice #People #Understanding

My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.
-- Blake Judd

#Running #Stars #Fun

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.
-- Blake Judd

#People #Chemicals #Bunch

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?
-- Blake Judd

#Tired #Listening #Marketing

The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.
-- Blake Judd

#Running #Mean #Labels

You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.
-- Blake Judd

#Jobs #Sick #World

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.
-- Blake Judd

#Separation #Music Life #Personal Life

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.
-- Blake Judd

#Hate #Hands #White

We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.
-- Blake Judd

#Done