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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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It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.
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Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her.
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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 am interested in politics.
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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 collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
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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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My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.
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All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.
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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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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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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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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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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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The past is where its supposed to be.
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For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.