89 Bosting Quotes By - Chad Gilbert | Status Free Download
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I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so those are the values I live by.
— Chad Gilbert
I think one thing that's amazing about 'Resurrection' is that we weren't afraid to lay it all out there lyrically.
— Chad Gilbert
I think a lot of bands would just make a dark, bleak album, which is why we wanted to do the opposite. We wanted to let people know that there's hope out there, and that no matter how tough things get, they will always get better. I'm really proud of that.
— Chad Gilbert
I did play flag football. I actually got my lip busted. My team was really good; we won first place in the season, and won the Super Bowl. I was one of the defense guys. I was really good.
— Chad Gilbert
To someone who's more of a surface fan, their favorite songs are the singles. But, we're the kind of band where a lot of the songs that aren't the singles are crazier live.
— Chad Gilbert
We're hoping that fans who have listened for a while, or only know the singles will be like, 'Damn, man, I didn't realize track 9 on 'Catalyst,' I didn't realize how awesome that song is.'
— Chad Gilbert
We did two nights at a place in Southern California that only holds about 500 people. It was really intimate... Everyone was in lingerie... OK, every time someone says a show was intimate, my head always goes there.
— Chad Gilbert
We'd practice in my living room and it was awesome. Our parents were pretty supportive of it because they thought it was cute. I don't think they ever realized how far we would go with it.
— Chad Gilbert
When you're recording a ninth studio album, you can't fail. You don't really have any fears. You just make the best record that you like. You hope your fans are gonna like it, but if they don't, they have eight other ones to listen to.
— Chad Gilbert
I love pumpkin pie.
— Chad Gilbert
I've been badly shocked before. I grabbed the mic to talk - it was near an outlet and there was water. I got shocked, and the jolt went from my head to my feet, shutting down my body and I just passed out. My friends woke me up and took me to the hospital.
— Chad Gilbert
One of the most distinctive things about our band is Jordan's voice. It stands out - in a good way for some people and in a bad way for others. But there's no mistaking it. That gives us a lot of room to do what we want musically. With Jordan singing, it'll always sound like New Found Glory.
— Chad Gilbert
I always looked up to Billie Joe because every song on Green Day's albums was catchy and good.
— Chad Gilbert
Actually my favorite singer of all time is Bjork. And my favorite band of all time is They Might Be Giants.
— Chad Gilbert
Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'
— Chad Gilbert
'Nothing To Say' is a song for friend circles that struggle with a member of that circle who seems to never have anything good to say.
— Chad Gilbert
All our old record reviews were like, 'Oh, these skate punk kids, blah, blah, blah.' And I don't skate, and we're not skate punks.
— Chad Gilbert
We write serious music, but we also are a real band where we don't take ourselves too seriously.
— Chad Gilbert
If you're in the music to move to Hollywood and be in 'People' magazine dating an actress or dating some Hollywood celebrity, are you into it for that side of it? Are you in it to be a millionaire? Or are you in it because you love it and you like playing music and you like going on tour?
— Chad Gilbert
Every record from New Found Glory is a little different. We're a real band that writes songs about our everyday relationships - like, our personal war, not war and government or politics.
— Chad Gilbert
I remember going up to bands I've loved and tried to talk to them and been cold-shouldered.
— Chad Gilbert
Our shows are more fun when there aren't barriers.
— Chad Gilbert
For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had nowhere to go, so we went to shows.
— Chad Gilbert
When we did the 'Titanic' theme, that song was everywhere. At the time we did it, it wasn't an old song. We didn't really listen to that song. We're not fans of the song. It was more about taking the song everyone knew and making it sound like a New Found Glory track.
— Chad Gilbert
I still get excited for band practice, like I love when we're about to go on tour and we all get together and practice. I'm so excited, it's like the first day of school. You check out everyone's new backpack.
— Chad Gilbert
We obviously need to make money to survive, but we aren't going to sacrifice our creative integrity to do anything that doesn't feel like us.
— Chad Gilbert
Because of social media being such a marketable format, things are constantly being released, so people don't pay as much attention because they have a million things being thrown at them. You reach more people, but now there's more content. Before, it was harder to get the people but there was less content.
— Chad Gilbert
What's really cool about 'This is Me' is that our friends loved the song. Older punk rock fans don't know 'The Greatest Showman,' haven't seen the movie. And they hear that song and they're like, 'This just sounds like an awesome New Found Glory song. This is a really good song.'
— Chad Gilbert
When you reflect on your life, you realize how arguments, pride, and the worry of proving yourself never changed or fixed anything.
— Chad Gilbert
Failure and missteps help refine your character and make you wiser.
— Chad Gilbert
All you truly need to worry about is waking up each day and to try to be the best version of yourself.
— Chad Gilbert
Those who have to struggle with addiction in their lives know the 'you only live once' mentality doesn't really work because you can only do that for so often before you're self-destructive.
— Chad Gilbert
People don't know what star-struck is until they've met Tom Hanks.
— Chad Gilbert
'My Friends Over You' has two guitars, but if you listen to us live, it's the same... I know how to hit a rhythm note and play lead at the same time.
— Chad Gilbert
The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.
— Chad Gilbert
You think of your first album, when we had no clue what we were doing, we had no clue if people were going to like it or not, we did it because we love it.
— Chad Gilbert
My stepfather, Steve Mallonee, is a retired Miami Beach firefighter, loved and adored by many. After numerous years of heroic work, saving lives through fire and heavy smoke, he has developed a very fatal lunge disease called Pulmonary Fibrosis.
— Chad Gilbert
You can't really predict what the fans love.
— Chad Gilbert
All of the records are direct reflections of how we were at that time in our lives, so when we play them, it's very nostalgic and fun, but also it's cool to see that they all still sound really relevant.
— Chad Gilbert
All of our songs, no matter what record they're on, mean a lot to us.
— Chad Gilbert
I'm involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and the easiest and most fun thing for me to do in my life, is to be in New Found Glory, go on stage and play these songs.
— Chad Gilbert
I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.
— Chad Gilbert
I've got this inflatable Darth Vader that I stole off the roof of a Burger King. I went in and asked the girl at the counter if I could have it, and she said she didn't care, but she wasn't going to get me a ladder or anything like that. So I just kind of pulled myself up there, cut it loose and took off.
— Chad Gilbert
We had such a huge fan base, they couldn't ignore us anymore. MTV was playing us on 'TRL.' We even did a TRL-sponsored tour that was Good Charlotte and us.
— Chad Gilbert
It's nice to have fans who want and need our music.
— Chad Gilbert
Hazen Street knew I wasn't going to be able to be in the band once it got started. It was fun to be a part of, but New Found Glory is my full-time thing.
— Chad Gilbert
I travel for theme parks.
— Chad Gilbert
Nowadays, people get tattoos so easily, to look cool and only for fashion.
— Chad Gilbert
We played some of our first big shows at Wayne Firehouse and Manville Elks Lodge. New Jersey's always been our home away from home.
— Chad Gilbert
I was on a cruise with my grandma when I was a kid. I remember winning $10 on the slot machine.
— Chad Gilbert
Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name 'em, it's just how it's always been.
— Chad Gilbert
It doesn't matter what people want to say on message boards, know what I mean? I don't pay attention to that stuff.
— Chad Gilbert
We first wrote the song 'Resurrection,' and it felt perfect for the album title. Through resurrection, most things come back better and stronger, and you learn a lot.
— Chad Gilbert
I really feel like New Found Glory created a subgenre.
— Chad Gilbert
When we first came out it was this happy accident, and I was sort of into hardcore at the time. Jordan our singer was really into Jawbreaker and a lot of indie rock bands and old Dischord bands, and sort of like more of the indie side of music. Our bass player was really into West Coast punk.
— Chad Gilbert
When we started, our style of music wasn't on MTV. It wasn't cool, and it wasn't popular. The only bands who were even kind of similar were Blink-182 and Green Day. But we don't sound like those bands, even if people throw us in that category now.
— Chad Gilbert
I swear, all we ever wanted to do was tour outside of Florida.
— Chad Gilbert
So if radio flops, and MTV flops and everything flops, it doesn't matter, as long as we're still playing and kids are coming to our shows.
— Chad Gilbert
When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record deal or get on the radio.
— Chad Gilbert
We don't change with the times because we write from the heart. We don't need to change our image to sell records because that's not why we do this.
— Chad Gilbert
The scene in South Florida when we were growing up, it wasn't divided. It wasn't different scenes. If you played loud or crazy music, you were on the same show.
— Chad Gilbert
The band will always be our number one, and I don't see it ever stopping. We love playing, so why would we want to stop?
— Chad Gilbert
We walk around Warped Tour all the time and I swear to you, kids are like, 'Hey, that looks like the guy from New Found Glory.'
— Chad Gilbert
We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.
— Chad Gilbert
I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to say in life.
— Chad Gilbert
When you release a single like 'My Friends Over You,' people just think you have one kind of song.
— Chad Gilbert
I read comments where our fans say Geffen screwed up 'Coming Home,' they screwed New Found Glory, but that's not really true. Maybe Geffen didn't have the right tools or whatever to get it to the kids, and internally, there were a bunch of changes going on at the label when our record came out, so I don't know if it's anyone's fault.
— Chad Gilbert
If we meet some people that are in love with NFG that are a major label, then we'll sign with them. If we meet people that are in love with NFG that are an independent label - and they have a plan - well, then we'll sign to them. It's completely up to us.
— Chad Gilbert
I think one of the reasons people are so passionate about our band is because we're so accessible.
— Chad Gilbert
Yeah, we might have a video on 'TRL,' but when you go to the Warped Tour you're going to see us walking around in the crowd and hanging out with kids because we treat our fans like we wanted to be treated when we were going to shows.
— Chad Gilbert
Fans feel so close to us and can relate to us because not only do we look like the kids at our shows, we're in the crowd with the kids at our shows. We don't create this weird barrier like we're some crazy rock band.
— Chad Gilbert
It's kind of cool being at a poker table with the guys from NOFX, a guy from Bad Religion, a guy from Lagwagon, all these cool punk bands you've always dug.
— Chad Gilbert
For me and MTV, it was always the MTV year-end countdowns. It was what I'd look forward to honestly every year just as much as Christmas. When Christmas was over, the top 100 videos of the year would lead up to the ball drop.
— Chad Gilbert
We've always existed regardless of how popular our band is. We've been around for a while, and we can tour regardless of whether there's a single on the radio or not.
— Chad Gilbert
So many bands have the same performance-based videos, and it's so lame. I know bands whose labels rent a crowd, so they have these fake audiences that jump up and down trying to make it look like a pit or something.
— Chad Gilbert
If you watch old Cars videos, they don't make any sense. They're just fun to watch. There doesn't need to be storyline, and you don't need to know why anything is happening.
— Chad Gilbert
All we do when we're not making music is play video games, eat food and see movies.
— Chad Gilbert
We have awesome and loyal fans. They'll buy our CD, then buy three more copies for their friends.
— Chad Gilbert
Kids don't want to hear the same record. There are a hundred million bands that they could listen to; you want to give them something that they've never heard before.
— Chad Gilbert
Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.
— Chad Gilbert
Though we love the big exposure, our true love and passion is for the intimate club shows.
— Chad Gilbert
There are parts in albums where I wrote a lot of the lyrics. There are parts on albums where Steve wrote a lot of the lyrics, even albums where Steve did the majority of the lyric writing. Then there were albums like 'Coming Home' where I did most of the chorus lyric writing. But it was always split.
— Chad Gilbert
Epitaph is the place to be! They were all longtime, true fans of New Found Glory and they understand us.
— Chad Gilbert
We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!
— Chad Gilbert
I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young to go - I think I was 12 or 13. It was before Green Day were on a major label, but I loved them because they were this band who were a punk band, but they had melody.
— Chad Gilbert
With the first album, we felt people didn't really understand our band.
— Chad Gilbert
In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.
— Chad Gilbert
I know a lot of people feel pressure with their major label sophomore CD and having to follow up their first record real good. Well, we didn't have that pressure, because we have a real loyal fanbase, not a fanbase because we're on the radio, know what I mean?
— Chad Gilbert
I suppose we don't know that much about how the music business operates in the U.K., but from what I've heard, it's a pretty big deal.
— Chad Gilbert
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