Robert Trujillo Quotes
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I always say, 'Hey, I'm in Metallica, but I wasn't on the Black Album.'
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A lot of the hardcore fans wanna hear the deep cuts - songs like 'Orion' or maybe like a 'Disposable Heroes' - you know, songs that we don't play all the time - and then, of course, they wanna hear 'Sandman' and 'Nothing Else Matters' and some of the hits.
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It's all about the experience and having a good time and connecting with the fans.
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I like that Metallica has found a way to have these non-pedestrian arrangements but then the vocal melody is strong and intense. I've always appreciated that as a fan.
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With Metallica, it's hard. I tend to like it all, but the older stuff, when we get into the deeper cuts, it really excites me personally.
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I'm a person that takes on situations from passion. I get passionate about things, and I try to help.
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The Big 4 tour was really great.
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Mike Clark, who's a really amazing surfer, got me back into surfing. I surfed a lot from '82 to '86, and then I kind of started slacking.
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James Hetfield, I mean, the minute he plugs in his guitar and adjusts the tone knob, he comes up with the world's greatest riff.
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'Justice' is the biggest challenge 'cause it's also complex in the arrangements.
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You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.
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I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
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Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco.
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When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.
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I play in Metallica, and I have fun in Metallica. I tell you, I am the luckiest man on the planet because we have a good time and we're happy. When we put on our guitars, we're teenagers again, and that's where the fun comes in.
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You can make an album, and people won't get it. Or won't connect with it. Or won't - whatever is going on in the universe at that time, it doesn't really register.
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I don't generally like things that are too pedestrian. But at the same time, and if I'm in the right mood, hey - I ain't gonna lie - I listen to Joni Mitchell. I listen to 'Blue,' I listen to Miles Davis.
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Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.
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We like to challenge ourselves, and having new material and presenting it to the world is fun and exciting and fresh.
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'Some Kind of Monster' is a challenge, and 'Through the Never' is an extension of that. Even the album we made with Lou Reed, it was a challenge.
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I was fortunate to not get wrapped up too hard in anything that was too dangerous.
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I think that young people should embrace artists like Lemmy from Motorhead but also be open to different styles.
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I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'
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Between 'St. Anger' and 'Death Magnetic,' we had, if I'm not mistaken, five kids born. And, of course, that would allow things to take time.