James Hetfield Quotes
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
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All artists are crazy.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.
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The more far-out artists, the better.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
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A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.
