Metallica Quotes
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Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking.
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You listen to a Metallica song, and you listen to the drums, and they're not necessarily swinging, but the arrangements are different. Why is that? Because it's more in tune with jazz arrangements. It's very different. It's not a traditional rock and roll production, in terms of the drums.
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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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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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I feel like I've always been a great mediator.
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You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.
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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 don't generally like things that are too pedestrian. But at the same time, and if I'm in the right mood, hey - I ain't gonna lie - I listen to Joni Mitchell. I listen to 'Blue,' I listen to Miles Davis.
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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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I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.
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It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.
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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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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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Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.
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Clearly see you can't see Clear.
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I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'
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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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You want your fanbase and new fans too, to embrace the music, the new music.
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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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Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.
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When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.
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Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.
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I think that young people should embrace artists like Lemmy from Motorhead but also be open to different styles.
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What Metallica always tries to do, as we go around and play a lot of the same cities, over and over again, year after year, is to give a different experience. We try to never play the same venues, or if we play indoors, we'll play outdoors, and all that type of stuff. It's always about just trying to do a different kind of experience.