an escapade.

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no job is too small to make a difference. - the guy doing cash collection at the toll gate showed me that.

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the GazettE (On DECADE Documentary, 2012)

[When they enter the stage for DECADE]

Rebellious stage, as always it happens to everyone of us. But rather than calling it a rebellious stage, it was because we had that confidence in our minds. — Kai

Within this 10 years there are various images surrounding the GazettE and inside of me. Looking at them all, as I thought after doing it for 10 years, letting go all the mistakes and coming (to this stage), I feel that I will make it. It was such feeling.— Uruha

It’s a distinct feeling of wanting to go until the end. Well, even in visual kei, even among visual kei (bands), there is this sort of non-measurable existence. As I thought I want to become like that. — Reita

I want to be in the GazettE for a long time, I want to create more things, I want to do more encouraging lives. I think I myself is a fan, that’s why I keep looking forward to it. — Aoi

As I thought standing up for 10 years, we’re heading to a (new) start again. Something will be started from here. It feels that something was closed up and we’ll have it our own way. Somehow the GazettE has come once again. That feeling is strong. — RUKI
“If we don’t keep challenging ourselves, the passion as a band will disappear. That’s why after a tour was over we chose a bigger place. To say the truth, from the fans’ place, it’s hard to watch because it’s far. It would be good to do it in smaller place, but perhaps I should say we do finals for the sake of ourselves (as a challenge).”
— 葵 on DECADE Documentary, 2012

Kai (On DECADE Documentary, 2012)

About Fans: ”That is one thing I can brag about the GazettE, such outlook on the world is important for me. In lives and compositions it is also the same. I think that is one of the GazettE’s charms. And it isn’t something to be fascinated by, it’s not something that can wear out. There hasn’t been any chance for me to see the fans as a fan. But as a part of the band, as the band member, if you asked me if I could do the lives just with the five of us, it’s impossible. As I thought, the heat and the mood in live venues, it’s the audience who create it. I said it’s the audience, but I think it’s not right to say it as such. Rather than as the audience, the sensation of comrade is stronger. Even though I think concerning the bonds with our fans, there are many times when we felt like we’ve been tested. To the extent that we felt a crisis and thought if the band was gonna be over.”
“A long time ago, my way of thinking was.. Because I was young, (on stage I said things like) more and more, rise your voice! To create a place that allowed (the fans) to do it, I thought as Gazette I wanted to have such image, like that sort of dangerous band. Or once Gazette started, that place turned out to be dangerous. I thought that was really cool. But now I think that isn’t everything. Only that won’t work. When you go to a big place, you need to show the band’s power.”
— 麗 on DECADE Documentary, 2012
“When I finally walk from the wing to the stage, as I thought I become different from my usual self. It’s like when you switch the lamp off on the stage, that’s when I switch. That’s why I sometimes act that riotous, or let out such voice.”
— 葵 on DECADE Documentary, 2012
“The truth is, I came here wearing a T-shirt. It would be nice if we could come out and do the live also wearing a T-shirt. For a rock band, to get out of the house at 9 am is something unbelievable.”
— れいた (the GazettE), on DECADE Documentary, 2012
“A good life is like getting on a roller coaster. If you ride, you’re more likely to feel brilliant after it than if you don’t get on it, because if you don’t get on it you’ll never know what it feels like.”
— Unknown (via raininrainbow)

the GazettE on Rolling Stone (Japan Edition) September 2012

[For Visual Kei, we want to be the “change”]

Now, in the middle of the current condition that can’t be called happiness, I sing something else. — RUKI

Not only the dynamic, but also reserving the precision. That’s what I wish to be Japanese Visual Kei’s pride. — Uruha

Dark music matches the Japanese feelings. — Aoi

There is this so-called pride to turn up only with something resembling a “dangerous fragrance” — REITA

Increasing the venue capacity higher and higher, if we stand at Tokyo Dome, there’s no need to be particular about a place anymore. — Kai