Metallica Quotes
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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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I've been friends with Jaco Pastorius's son since 1996 - Johnny Pastorius, the eldest son. And I remember when I first met him, I said, 'Some day, you've gotta make a film about your father,' because his influence is so broad.
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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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If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.
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It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
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I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.
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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 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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I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.
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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 you shake my hand, better count your fingers.
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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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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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What I have learned about Metallica is that it's all about taking chances and challenges.
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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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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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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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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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With my experience with Metallica, I've already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.
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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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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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If I'm gonna commit suicide, I'll go out eatin' pussy to death.
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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.
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No matter how beautiful a girl is, she still shits.