Metallica Quotes
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I love playing the melodic stuff. I love adding textures and colors.
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Lars Ulrich is not a jazz drummer, but he grew up listening to jazz. Why? Because his father, Torben - an incredible tennis player - loved jazz. Jazz musicians used to stay at their house.
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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.
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You need to find a way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.
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In a lot of ways, Metallica is like a fusion band. It's not necessarily jazz or any of that, but the music is grooving.
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I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
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I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
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Mike Clark, who's a really amazing surfer, got me back into surfing. I surfed a lot from '82 to '86, and then I kind of started slacking.
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Between 'St. Anger' and 'Death Magnetic,' we had, if I'm not mistaken, five kids born. And, of course, that would allow things to take time.
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With Metallica, it's hard. I tend to like it all, but the older stuff, when we get into the deeper cuts, it really excites me personally.
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We like to challenge ourselves, and having new material and presenting it to the world is fun and exciting and fresh.
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Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.
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When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.
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I would say [Lamar] Kendrick, it`s always fun to see what happens when Kendrick takes the stage. And my two oldest kids are huge fans of him.
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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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Jaco Pastorius gave the bass a new voice. I mean, he was very inspired by singers like Frank Sinatra. And in a lot of ways, maybe he wanted to be a singer himself.
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Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.
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Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.
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You can make an album, and people won't get it. Or won't connect with it. Or won't - whatever is going on in the universe at that time, it doesn't really register.
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'Justice' is the biggest challenge 'cause it's also complex in the arrangements.
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If you choose to take care of yourself, you're going to get more mileage for your career.
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Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more.
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There's a lot of personality in Lars's drumming. That's what makes it unique.
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With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.
