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 More Quotes by Blake Judd More Quotes From Blake Judd I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person. Blake Judd special-treatment happy-person facts 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 soul heart years 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 musician math thinking I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre. Blake Judd men people thinking 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 intelligent attitude people 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 years thinking It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider. Blake Judd outsiders easy negative 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 identity evil mean Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. Blake Judd language knowing people I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me. Blake Judd halfway theory school 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 signatures writing thinking 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 understanding people 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 stars running fun When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle. Blake Judd chemicals bunch people 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 marketing listening 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 labels running mean You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it. Blake Judd sick jobs world I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life. Blake Judd personal-life separation music-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 white hands We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves. Blake Judd done
