Metallica Quotes
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Don't talk it, walk it.
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I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
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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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When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.
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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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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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I wouldn't vote for Obama.
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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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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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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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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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Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
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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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Control your life through insanity.
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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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Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.
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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 care about what the fans feel.
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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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Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
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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.