Metallica Quotes
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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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I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.
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Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.
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Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.
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When Lars said, 'We want you to be in Metallica,' I was blown away.
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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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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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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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Sabbath is always some of the best music ever. And the reason is because it grooves. It's funky. It's heavy. It's got lots of great changes, twists, and turns.
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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 don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.
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My guitar was a loyal person to me.
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Rehab is like college for your head.
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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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Music was the voice I didn't have.
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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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Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
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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'm not a great singer.
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Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.
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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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Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
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Life is for my own to live my own way.
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Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.