Metallica Quotes
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As long as there is communication, everything can be solved.
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Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
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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'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.
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I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.
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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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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 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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'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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Control your life through insanity.
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For me, the most important thing that I tell young people is to have fun.
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What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
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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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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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'I am the table!'
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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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A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.
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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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One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
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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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Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.
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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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I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.