Jacob Bannon Quotes

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

For me, hardcore is simply unapologetic music, free of rules.
By that definition, we are a hardcore band.

I feel that people who are new to punk/hardcore don't truly understand the music and the role it plays in people's lives until they experience the environment for themselves.

It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage, to hear a PA reverberating and slapping off the walls, the push and pull of an audience, the blood, sweat, and heat. It's a primal thing in a way.

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

Music being "good or bad" is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

I am far from an "old" person in human terms, however I've spent over half my life immersed in the punk rock and hardcore community. I am not wholly defined by that as a person, but it is something that has been part of me for a long time.