Metallica Quotes
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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.
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That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.
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The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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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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I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.
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For me, the most important thing that I tell young people is to have fun.
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I wouldn't vote for Obama.
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The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
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Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.
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'I am the table!'
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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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The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.
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Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
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Every once in a while we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
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Don't talk it, walk it.
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Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.
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I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.
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What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
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Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.
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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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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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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.