Metallica Quotes
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After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'
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What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part of the journey I'm on with Metallica, there's just a certain edge that needs to be there.
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Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.
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I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
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My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
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All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.
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I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
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A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way.
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To me, the most important thing was to treat people the way you want to be treated. Some people say that I'm a mean person. Well, you know what? The person that's saying that is probably a dipshit and I put them in their place! I have a knack for doing that.
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I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
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Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.
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I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
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Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco.
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Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.
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Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.
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I am interested in politics.
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It's always nice, no matter what style of music, as long as it's grooving and you feel that, I feel that's what makes... part of what makes a great song, for sure.
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You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.
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If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.
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It's really a rush and a thrill to feel you've been part of a body of music that's inspiring.
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My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
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After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.
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I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.
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As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.