Metallica Quotes
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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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Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with,' Metallica is it and I think when that ceases, that's it.
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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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When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.
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A lot of the hardcore fans wanna hear the deep cuts - songs like 'Orion' or maybe like a 'Disposable Heroes' - you know, songs that we don't play all the time - and then, of course, they wanna hear 'Sandman' and 'Nothing Else Matters' and some of the hits.
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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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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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It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.
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There's a lot of personality in Lars's drumming. That's what makes it unique.
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You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.
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When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.
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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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I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.
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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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I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'
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I love playing the melodic stuff. I love adding textures and colors.
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You want your fanbase and new fans too, to embrace the music, the new music.
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No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.
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Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.
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I'm just sitting here trying not to be unhappy.
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Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.
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I was pretty quiet as a child.
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As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.
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Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.