Metallica Quotes
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I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.
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With our fans, a lot of times, people get upset because maybe they didn't get what they wanted, whatever. But we always write the songs for us, number one.
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I was pretty quiet as a child.
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It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
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If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.
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This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.
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Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it.
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I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.
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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.
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If you shake my hand, better count your fingers.
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Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.
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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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I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.
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What I have learned about Metallica is that it's all about taking chances and challenges.
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The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.
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With my experience with Metallica, I've already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.
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I had a band called Infectious Grooves back in the Nineties. That music was really a mixture of styles, and we had some stuff that was punk rock, ska, but then we had a lot of funk in there.
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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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If I'm gonna commit suicide, I'll go out eatin' pussy to death.
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Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.
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I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.
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I think it's very cool for the drummer to be set free from having to worry about holding down the beat every once in a while, though it's a little constricting.
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Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!
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We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.