Metallica Quotes
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Live win, dare fail.
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I choose to live, not just exist.
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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 think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it`s going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it`s like a train that`s moving and you don`t quite know where it`s going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.
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That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.
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I'm married to Metallica.
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If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead - and I'd much rather be alive.
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One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.
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I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.
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You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
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Each album you make, each body of music, you just never know how the world's going to relate to it.
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I've been a baseball fan in the early part of my life, so through the '70s and the '80s, I was a huge fan. I actually followed the Dodgers back then, back in the Kirk Gibson years, Steve Garvey.
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For me, the most important thing that I tell young people is to have fun.
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I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was an important part of my life.
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Traditionally, the role of the bass player was just to keep things simple and solid, so it's really a special thing when you can get a player that can actually bring in a lot of presence and also a visual presence, too.
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Playing with Ozzy was a dream come true.
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Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.
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With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.
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As long as there is communication, everything can be solved.
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I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.
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As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.
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I think Slayer is a funky band.
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We like to set off bombs.