Growth Quote by Devin Townsend

“As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.”

Devin Townsend

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I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do.

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It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of…

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I like Canada for a number of reasons, politics and people and all that stuff aside. I was raised there, and I write music…

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I guess I'm not really into female vocals that sound masculine, I guess. A lot of times, the heavy female vocalists always end up…

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For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and…

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I'm not a big fan of options, to be honest. The more options that I have, the less time that I spend actually completing…

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I'm good at what I do but, to be honest, not a whole hell of a lot else!

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After Strapping, the amount of things in my life had changed were more than I'd ever had to process in any one time, and…

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In Strapping, I had experimented with a creative catharsis under the assumption that art doesn't need to be accountable for itself, but I found…

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When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All…

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I think when music, specifically heavy music, the motivation for it is other than truly feeling it, that's when it becomes really difficult for…

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Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, 'Look at…

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