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Oliver Sykes
1986 • English • Musician
36
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Showing 36 quotesEverything I'd taught myself about screaming is basically a big no-no for singing. Your posture, your airflow - you're just pushing all the air out. When you start out, you're fast, heavy and loud but you're hiding behind it in a way. When you stop screaming, that's when it gets hard.— Oliver Sykes
Artists can be the most powerful people in the world because they can use their voice for good. Politicians should be the most powerful people in the world but they aren't going to do anything.— Oliver Sykes
We need to be our own heroes. We need a new way of looking at things. Greta Thunberg has shown us that. It's crazy, but this kid has proven that we can be our own leaders.— Oliver Sykes
The guitar shouldn't be a main instrument, it should be a texture. It shouldn't be important whether it's there or not. If it's important to you whether a guitar is there or not, you're weird.— Oliver Sykes
I just love to sit and go, 'Let's just write a song and not worry about how it needs to be'.— Oliver Sykes
I like how our records go from super poppy to heavy then electronic, and next I'd like to make a bunch of records where each of them has a distinct vibe to it.— Oliver Sykes
You have to ration your creativity over all your songs. You write a really cool pop song then you have to write a heavy song to balance out, then you need to think about singles.— Oliver Sykes
I found myself reading about this 16-year-old kid inventing a micro-organism to save the ocean. It made me realise that we can do anything if we put our minds to it. Even with all the damage and destruction, things can heal if we let them.— Oliver Sykes
I've been a vegan and a vegetarian for 15 years and I've always just quietly kept and values and my beliefs to myself. I didn't want to preach or be outspoken about all these things.— Oliver Sykes
Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don't grieve. Sometimes we're just too scared to face our emotions.— Oliver Sykes
When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling - but it's important to grieve. Even if something's happened for the best, you need to take that moment to feel something.— Oliver Sykes
I think EDM and metal and rock have been together already for a long time. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, the Prodigy - they all have influences from both.— Oliver Sykes
Rock's gone soft, it's gone miserable and boring, there's not really much exciting about it. So it's important that we cross over, because we feel like we belong more in a place where people just like music and it's not about how heavy it is.— Oliver Sykes
Happy Song' is a sarcastic open letter to the world about how we use superficial and trivial things to ignore the real problems.— Oliver Sykes
Your favourite songs by your favourite bands are never the singles. It's when they've done exactly what they wanted without any compromise and not worried about the reaction.— Oliver Sykes
You could have the thickest skin but Instagram and Twitter still affect you. It makes you envious, even if you've got everything you could ever want.— Oliver Sykes
You just want so badly to be the best version of what people are saying, you want to look like the covers you're on, but it's hard to do that everyday.— Oliver Sykes