Metallica Quotes
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We enjoy playing small shows, big shows, whatever. There's the energy of the visual production, and all that stuff starts to happen, so when you see it come to life, it's pretty exciting.
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When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine.
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I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.
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I've always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as a child. My whole aesthetic has always been one of the darker side. That rings true also in my tastes in music. It's just always something I've gravitated to naturally.
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We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.
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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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When mankind goes back to treating people the way you want to be treated, things will settle, I don't see that happening. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.
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I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
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I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'
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You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.
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The great thing about Santa Monica civic auditorium was it was a place you could ride your bike to. In this case, my dad dropped me and my friends off, and we'd go see Ronnie James Dio or Jean-Luc Ponty or Weather Report or the Pretenders.
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You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.
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God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.
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When I first heard the song 'Eruption,' which is Eddie Van Halen's most famous solo composition, I was confused because it sounded incredible, but I didn't know what it was. I didn't know if it was a guitar. I didn't know if it was a synthesizer or a keyboard. I couldn't figure it out.
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When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.
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My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.
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I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.
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Life is for my own to live my own way.
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Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?
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I've been wearing Vans since I was a little kid. I wear them on stage, and I grew up skateboarding and surfing.
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Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.
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Don't make music to make money, because that's not why you should be doing it. Have fun, be creative, and embrace the past.
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Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
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A lot of the hardcore fans wanna hear the deep cuts - songs like 'Orion' or maybe like a 'Disposable Heroes' - you know, songs that we don't play all the time - and then, of course, they wanna hear 'Sandman' and 'Nothing Else Matters' and some of the hits.