Metallica Quotes
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My musical tastes change every week.
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I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.
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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 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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As long as there is communication, everything can be solved.
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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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Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
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What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
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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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Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
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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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For me, the most important thing that I tell young people is to have fun.
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Control your life through insanity.
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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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'I am the table!'
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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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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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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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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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Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
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Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.
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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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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.
