Lars Ulrich Quotes
Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
Quotes to Explore
-
Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
-
I have never believed in the impossible.
-
Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
-
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
-
When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
-
I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
-
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
-
I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
-
I like music a lot.
-
I have never broken a contract in my career.
-
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
-
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
-
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
-
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
-
I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
-
The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
-
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
-
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
-
Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
-
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
-
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
-
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.
-
Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
