Metallica Quotes
- All Quotes
- News Quotes
-
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.
-
Control your life through insanity.
-
I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.
-
For me, the most important thing that I tell young people is to have fun.
-
The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
All the drinking and all the other junk that I was stuck in... It was so predictable. So boring. I wake up the next day - somewhere, in some bed, I don't know who this person is next to me... and I'm drunk, competely hung over and have a show to do. The result is the same... When life now is pretty... exciting. You don't know what's gonna happen.
-
Every once in a while we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
-
Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
-
We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
-
Don't talk it, walk it.
-
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.
-
Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
-
'I am the table!'
-
Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.
-
I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.
-
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.
-
I wouldn't vote for Obama.
-
'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.'
-
It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.
-
Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
-
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.