Metallica Quotes
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If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.
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There's a lot of personality in Lars's drumming. That's what makes it unique.
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The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'
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I was pretty quiet as a child.
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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 love playing the melodic stuff. I love adding textures and colors.
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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'm just sitting here trying not to be unhappy.
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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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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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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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Hugh [Evans] called us. And obviously this has been on our radar for all the years it`s been going on. And each year obviously reaches more and more people, and it`s high profile. Hugh reached out to our manager just down the street. And we said we`re here [ on GLOBAL CITIZEN in the Central Park] to help and do whatever we can.
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My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.
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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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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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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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To have the opportunity to bring 'Tallica Parking Lot' to life through images was really special. And also to have a lot of my heroes and my friends in the film was really, really special. People like Lemmy from Motorhead.
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What I have learned about Metallica is that it's all about taking chances and challenges.
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It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
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A lot of times, I'll have a goal, I'll start writing, and I'll end up in some far off place, which is good. It's nice to have a focus, but letting the lyrics write themselves where they need to go is important.
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No matter how beautiful a girl is, she still shits.
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I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
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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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Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.