Metallica Quotes
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Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.
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'I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.'
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It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
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As long as there is communication, everything can be solved.
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Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.
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Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
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There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar. Soon I realized that bass was what was really grooving me.
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Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.
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What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
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One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
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For me, the most important thing that I tell young people is to have fun.
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I think every Metallica album is unique in its own way.
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Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
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My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.
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Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
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'I am the table!'
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My musical tastes change every week.
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Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
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Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
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I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies.
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I've been a baseball fan in the early part of my life, so through the '70s and the '80s, I was a huge fan. I actually followed the Dodgers back then, back in the Kirk Gibson years, Steve Garvey.
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I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
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Control your life through insanity.
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Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.
