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We like to set off bombs.
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I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.
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I think every Metallica album is unique in its own way.
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'Lars would talk his way into their pants. Kirk had a babyface that was appealing to the girls. And Cliff; he had a big dick. Word got around about that, I guess.' James Hetfield - Playboy April 2001.
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I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
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I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.
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'When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.', (Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676). 'All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?', (Burton).
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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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When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.
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If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel.
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'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.
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I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.
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The Big 4 tour was really great.
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I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.
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As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.
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These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.
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I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.
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I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.
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We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
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It's really, really great; it's special when people embrace your music.
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Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.
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Lemmy is, I think, for anybody in the world of rock n' roll - you don't have to be a bass player - he is a pioneer, and he was true to his music and also the lover of a lot of different styles of music.
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There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.
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I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.