Dave Mustaine Quotes
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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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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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It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.
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Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her.
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I am interested in politics.
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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.
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I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
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If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.
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To me, the most important thing was to treat people the way you want to be treated. Some people say that I'm a mean person. Well, you know what? The person that's saying that is probably a dipshit and I put them in their place! I have a knack for doing that.
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I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.
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My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
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Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.
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God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.
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When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine.
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I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.
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If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.
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Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.
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Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
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When mankind goes back to treating people the way you want to be treated, things will settle, I don't see that happening. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.
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I'm not a great singer.
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My guitar was a loyal person to me.
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My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.
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People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica.
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Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.