Metallica Quotes
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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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It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
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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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Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
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As long as there is communication, everything can be solved.
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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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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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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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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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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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My musical tastes change every week.
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'I am the table!'
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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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Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
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For me, the most important thing that I tell young people is to have fun.
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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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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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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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Control your life through insanity.
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I think every Metallica album is unique in its own way.
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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.
