Metallica Quotes
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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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Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.
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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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It had to be something real bad. I think he stole music online.
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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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People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.
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Cliff was a very smart guy, a reader, very eloquent. I just don't understand why he went, and not one of us.
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Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
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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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My guitar was a loyal person to me.
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You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?
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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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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.
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To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.
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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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I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.
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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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Life is for my own to live my own way.
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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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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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Music was the voice I didn't have.
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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.
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I'm not a great singer.
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When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.