Metallica Quotes
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Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.
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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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My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
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It's really, really great; it's special when people embrace your music.
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I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.
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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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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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The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.
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I've always loved horror, I've always loved collecting, I've always loved weird and macabre things, and I've always loved conventions. So what could be better than having your own Fear FestEviL where all those great and crazy things can be enjoyed by like-minded people under one pretty cool roof? Nothing!
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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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My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
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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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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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Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.
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The great thing about Metallica's music and the lyrics, it's always going to be hopefully a motivating experience.
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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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Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a matter of love and not an exchange of equity.
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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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All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.
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People say that being kicked out of Metallica is what drove me to be better and faster in Megadeth, but i was faster and better than Metallica when i was in Metallica.
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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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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.
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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.