Metallica Quotes
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When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home.
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It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.
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I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.
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Live win, dare fail.
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'Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.'
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There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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The first album I ever bought was Santana's 'Abraxas.' Obviously, I was a huge fan of Carlos because he had the unique guitar sound, and he had incorporated a lot of the percussion and really, really fun rhythmic bass lines in there, too.
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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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I choose to live, not just exist.
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For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.
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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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A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
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One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.
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Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.
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When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.
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If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
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I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.
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Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.
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'Mama I'm Coming Home' is one song that I think is incredible. One of his best songs ever written. Lemmy wrote the lyrics to that.
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I'm married to Metallica.
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Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense.