Dave Mustaine Quotes
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The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.
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Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'
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David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard.
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Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense.
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Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.
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I could do Rust In Peace again, but I don't want to. I could have followed that formula but, God, why? I would have to have done so much heroin and cocaine - and I wasn't going to. Not if I'm paying for it!
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I watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the way that he just truly went with his voice.
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I wouldn't vote for Obama.
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I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.
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If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
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One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.
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When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.
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I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.
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The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
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I care about what the fans feel.
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Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.
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I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.
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Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.
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I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
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Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.
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The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
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What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.
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It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.
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I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.