James Hetfield Quotes
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There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.
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Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.
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Rehab is like college for your head.
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It had to be something real bad. I think he stole music online.
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All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.
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My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.
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There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.
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Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.
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Life is for my own to live my own way.
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'Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.'
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I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.
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Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.
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Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
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I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.
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I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.
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The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.
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Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
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I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.
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As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.
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I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
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There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.
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Music was the voice I didn't have.
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You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.
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I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.