James Hetfield Quotes

We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

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• Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

  

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• Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

  

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• Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

  

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• I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.

  

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• I am only about winning and getting better.

  

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• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

  

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• Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

  

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• The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

  

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• Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

  

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• The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

  

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• We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Record
  • Radio
  • Edit