Metallica Quotes
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I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.
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For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever.
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I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.
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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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'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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It's really, really great; it's special when people embrace your music.
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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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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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We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
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I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica.
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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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Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.
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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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What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.
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If you'd stop being a Metallica fan because I won't give you my music for free, then fuck you. I don't want you to be a Metallica fan.
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When I started, I decided to devote my life to it and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer.
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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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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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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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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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The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.
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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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The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.