I liked Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Melvins. I didn't really care much for Pearl Jam. — Max Cavalera Care Copy Share Image
I think 'Roots' is a courageous record with some really cool stuff in it. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
We all have violence inside of us, but we try to channel it into what we do. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I think when things are unpredictable, they don't turn out how you imagine. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a writing guy to start with. I don't write diaries. — Max Cavalera Diaries Copy Share Image
We're not an American band, or a European band. We're a Brazilian band. — Max Cavalera 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There were bands like Iron Maiden, but we wanted it heavier. We wanted to go radical, we wanted to go extreme. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Roots' was the first album on which I recorded a berimbau. After that, I recorded it a bunch for Soulfly and other… — Max Cavalera 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
We used to joke that we were more scared of the police than we were of the devil. You had to have… — Max Cavalera Devil 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
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
The Patriotic Act allows the American government to snoop around anybody's business at any time. Nobody has privacy anymore. Everybody can hack… — Max Cavalera American government Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia' was the first real production of the Cogumelo label. They put everything they had into it. The original album had a… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Being from Brazil, I missed out on a lot of American music, so I like to go back and check things out… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Chaos A.D' is about chaos around the world. 'Territory' was about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
A Clockwork Orange' was one of my favorite movies as a teenager. I had a big poster on my wall in Brazil. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Guerillas' uses a snippet of 'Procreation of the Wicked' by Celtic Frost because I always loved that song. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I really love 'Killchain' - it's got this groove, it's the groove I always talk about in death metal and black metal,… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
My only regret is maybe with Nailbomb. And it's that we didn't do more. Because that project had the capacity to offer… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
When we did the 'Roots' tour with Cavalera Conspiracy, it was more flashy. It was supposed to be a big deal because… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I think all my anger and hate comes out in the music; that should be the way you channel these things. It's… — Max Cavalera Anger Copy Share Image
I don't really go to church every Sunday and that kind of stuff, but I do believe in a higher power and… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of metal. I'm like a teenager - I make playlists with, like, 200 bands on them. — Max Cavalera Bands Copy Share Image
If you face problems, face reality, even when it's hard, even when what you're saying is an ugly truth, sometimes you can… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
We know Faith No More from back in Brazil; when they played Brazil, we'd hang out with them and became good friends. — Max Cavalera Brazil Copy Share Image
Because of the fact that we grew up in a Third World country, we see how things are from the outside point… — Max Cavalera Country Copy Share Image
The vocals are aggressive not because I want to create an evil voice or anything like that, but because when I sing… — Max Cavalera Angry 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
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
