If I'm feeling down, I'll play stuff to get charged up - even better to hear heavier stuff. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I have lots of friends who stopped being into metal and just quit. Not for me, man. — Max Cavalera Being Copy Share Image
The Soulfly logo was invented by a tattoo artist, Leo Zuleta; a lot of people don't know that. — Max Cavalera Art Copy Share Image
People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name. — Max Cavalera Ideas Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things about religion, especially Catholic religion, that bug me. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Me and Iggor come from poor upbringings. We're broke, never had any money. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Music is never-ending, that's what I love about it. Even after we're dead, this music will still exist... that's the best bit.… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Yeah, I always had the habit of translating a lot of Black Sabbath records - that's kinda like how I first learned… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Nailbomb was never really a big record. It's big in the underground. It's huge and it developed a big cult following. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Chemistry is so difficult to explain. It's there or it's not. And I notice with people it sometimes is there and then… — Max Cavalera Chemistry Copy Share Image
There's a lot of modern stuff I really dig, like Melechesh or Italian death metal like Hour Of Penance and Bloodtruth. — Max Cavalera Death Copy Share Image
To me, if I retire tomorrow, what the hell am I gonna do? Sit around the house and do nothing? I would… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I really love history. When I was a little kid in Brazil, it was my favorite subject in school. I always did… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
The heat doesn't bother me as much as it does other people. I'm from Brazil, where it's hot anyway. — Max Cavalera Brazil Copy Share Image
I always think of the 'Schizophrenia' album as being like the cover of the Scorpions' 'Blackout.' It's got this guy breaking out… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
If you do it with passion - you just have to have passion for what you're doing - and sometimes you've gotta… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
With 'Psychosis' we didn't want to have any silence on the record so the whole record plays like this one song. We… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
We could easily have made 'Arise II' and plenty of fans would have been happy, and we probably would have been OK… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
We did some shows - Soulfly played for the Marines twice and it was great meeting those guys. A lot of them… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Some people love 'Roots;' some people hate 'Roots.' Some people only like the old stuff. Some people want me to play like… — Max Cavalera Hate Copy Share Image
A lot of times I like to listen to albums between midnight and three in the morning - it's my favorite listening… — Max Cavalera Communication Copy Share Image
I think Sepultura, I have to say 'Refuse/Resist' is one of my favorite riffs. It's really energetic and I love the song.… — Max Cavalera Chaos Copy Share Image
When we released 'Chaos A.D' it was really hard for a metal artist to survive. Everything was grunge. Everywhere you looked was… — Max Cavalera Art Copy Share Image
I started to listen to music in '80 or '81, bands like Queen or Kiss. Then in '83, when I first got… — Max Cavalera Bands Copy Share Image
Music is such a big landscape. There's so much we can do with it. It's endless. That's what the cool thing about… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
As far as recording equipment, we use everything! We don't rely too much on Pro Tools like other bands. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
A lot of what we sing concerns the Brazilian way of life. The stuff I write is reality, everything I see. That's… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I must have a good chemistry to play because I play every day with the same people. It has to be there.… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
When Sepultura played in B, because of Iggor's drumming, because of the way the songs are structured, it's very different from Korn.… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Sepultura had a political album like Chaos A.D. that concerned itself with politics and war. I continued that in some areas with… — Max Cavalera Chaos Copy Share Image
We get to travel to Siberia, Japan, China, Australia, South America and even the little cities all around America. It's probably my… — Max Cavalera America Copy Share Image
For me, the fun part is riffs, and making the riffs is what I... that's my world. I'm born for that. And… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I think metal bands don't have too much to say in their lyrics, and never care about it. We just decided… — Max Cavalera Bands Copy Share Image
I don't know if people know this, but I kind of got Fear Factory signed with Roadrunner. I really bugged Monte Conner… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Argentina has the best fans actually. They're amazing over there. Just loud and passionate and they sleep outside the hotel. — Max Cavalera Amazing Copy Share Image
I just try to make the best record I can make, without any ego or comparisons at all. I never sit there… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
We were always broke and always complaining about something and music came and gave us a reason. That's why we started Sepultura. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I get to express myself in my songs more than I can ever do in real life or in talking to somebody.… — Max Cavalera Life Copy Share Image
