A biography for David Draimanhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm all about freedom to go ahead and practice whatever kind of religions you want, have whatever sort of sexual preference you want, freedom in terms of being pro choice for women.”
“I despise lackadaisical behavior when it comes to our music. I mean, this is heavy metal music. You must be involved. You're required to be involved.”
“Ninety percent of the time, I'm a laid-back teddy-bear dude.”
“There's everybody in the world who is always trying, time and time again, to proclaim the death of rock, or hard rock and heavy metal. Not if I have anything to do with it, not if we have anything to do with it.”
“I'm a very active angel investor in a number of different companies.”
“We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.”
“'Creeping Death' - that was a special song for me as a kid, because that was the one that every single Jewish kid thought, 'Oh, Metallica wrote a song for us. He wrote it about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt under slavery.'”
“I try not to mix the politics as much with the band, per se, because my political views are my own; they're not necessarily the band's.”
“I really don't think that anybody's going to buy or not buy a Disturbed album and/or ticket because I am or am not wearing my labret piercings.”
“People who are divided are easier to control.”
“The world wants rock bands to be idiots.”
“The media continues to spin the State of Israel and Jews as war-mongering, evil people, which we are not.”
“I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you feel it's as possible as it can be.”
“I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.”
“We've always used that as a goal - the record that literally every single track on it could be a hit. A record that breaks doors down, that opens up new opportunities to us, that helps you achieve true immortality as an artist.”
“Look, it makes sense to be able to take part of what you've earned in this life and have it grow. And I hope that other musicians out there that do have their moments of profit and of success are wise enough not to squander those profits and that success.”
“I think that people are too... They've become genre snobs.”
“Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.”
“I had a motorcycle accident, and I had my garage burn down with most of my vehicles. And I've had really bad relationships that I've been in and out of. They've left their mark.”
“I come from a classical background.”