EDGUY Frontman TOBIAS SAMMET - "We Had Potentially Great Futures Outside Of Music But We Didn’t Want To Go Down That Road"
November 26, 2008, 15 years ago
EDGUY / AVANTASIA frontman Tobias Sammet is featured in a new interview with Rushonrock.com. An excerpt appears below.
Rushonrock: Do you see yourselves as a successful band?
TS: "I don’t know how a band like Edguy can measure success. The most important thing in a band as in most walks of life is that you’re happy with what you’re doing. All of us could have done something different. We were all going to school. Some of us even studied. All of us were starting to listen to our teachers and we had potentially great futures outside of music but we didn’t want to go down that road."
Rushonrock: But we’re sure you’d like a few more Euros in your pocket?
TS: "These days it goes without saying we want to have commercial success and when you reach the stage we’re at it means, at the very least, you can finance the big productions that make your records sound better. But for me success is not having to get up in the morning and work a 9-5 job. That’s the key. We have had a degree of commercial success in our own way but I suppose the thing is we’d never doing something in order to be successful. We don’t focus on any special market or group. We do what we like and hope other people like it too."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
