Ace Quote by Mike Portnoy

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In…

— Jerry Cantrell

After I left Dream Theater, and I was doing Avenged Sevenfold, Twisted Sister... all these other things, I made a lot of new fans…

— Mike Portnoy

The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped…

— Synyster Gates

Once I had the band, Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] - it's very exciting to have that trio of just world-class…

— Jose James

My father was stationed in Italy in the military. I had no one to feed me what was cool, so I was into Guns…

— Laura Jane Grace

From a really young age, I was playing Cat Stevens and listening to Paul Simon. As I got a little older, I got really…

— Noah Kahan

When I was younger, and Iron Maiden and Def Leppard and all that stuff was coming out, I was learning all those songs and…

— John Petrucci

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were…

— Alexis Taylor

I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week - that I…

— Veronica Vasicka

I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever…

— Jez Williams

It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy, and Nikki…

— Duff McKagan

Everybody's family plays them music, and my grandma used to play a lot of old-school stuff, like Ron Isley and Gladys Knight. Earth, Wind…

— Bryson Tiller