Metallica Quotes
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My first gig with Metallica was at San Quentin State Penitentiary.
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What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
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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 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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The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.
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I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.
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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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On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.
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Rehab is like college for your head.
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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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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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It had to be something real bad. I think he stole music online.
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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 believe in rock and roll and heavy music in general.
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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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You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?
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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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When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.
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I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.
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It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
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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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My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.
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I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.